Bug #16656
closed
Suricata 7.0.8_5 - UI frontend crash while opening "Blocks" page
Added by Ivan Bobyr about 1 month ago.
Updated 19 days ago.
Affected Architecture:
amd64
Description
Crash report begins. Anonymous machine information:
amd64
15.0-CURRENT
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #21 RELENG_2_8_1-n256095-47c932dcc0e9: Thu Aug 28 16:27:48 UTC 2025 root@pfsense-build-release-amd64-1.eng.atx.netgate.com:/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-snapshots-2_8_1-main/obj/amd64/AupY3aTL/var/jenkins/workspace/pfSense-CE-
Crash report details:
PHP Errors:
[21-Jan-2026 13:10:16 Asia/Tashkent] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: date_create_from_format(): Argument #2 ($datetime) must not contain any null bytes in /usr/local/www/suricata/suricata_blocked.php:331
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/suricata/suricata_blocked.php(331): date_create_from_format()
#1 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/suricata/suricata_blocked.php on line 331
[21-Jan-2026 13:11:29 Asia/Tashkent] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ValueError: date_create_from_format(): Argument #2 ($datetime) must not contain any null bytes in /usr/local/www/suricata/suricata_blocked.php:331
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/suricata/suricata_blocked.php(331): date_create_from_format()
#1 {main}
thrown in /usr/local/www/suricata/suricata_blocked.php on line 331
No FreeBSD crash data found.
Files
PFSENSE
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2.8.1-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Tue Sep 9 21:29:00 +05 2025
FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Priority changed from Urgent to Normal
The error indicates there was an issue in the /var/log/suricata/*block.log file(s). The timestamp string contained malformed data which could not be parsed. There's already code to gracefully handle this exception. Make sure to update to the latest Suricata package version.
There're some issues with immediate fixing the problem. The pfSense's port applies some patches the original sources, and simply to rebuild the "suricata" binary alone (without the pfSense's "libpfctl.so" etc dependencies) doesn't works - starting the "suricata" service fails on dynamic linking (to "libjansson.so.4")
The below build script builds well but the built "suricata" binary is unusable on the working router (x86_64 PC)
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#!/bin/sh
- The sources: https://www.openinfosecfoundation.org/download/suricata-7.0.14.tar.gz
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--datarootdir=/usr/local/share \
--disable-gccmarch-native \
--enable-gccprotect=yes \
--enable-bundled-htp \
--enable-geoip=yes \
--enable-netmap=yes \
--enable-ipfw \
--enable-ipfw \
--enable-luajit \
--enable-rust \
--enable-hiredis
DEST=/tmp/suricata-7.0.14
make clean
make -j $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
mkdir -p $DEST
rm -rvf $DEST/*
make install-strip DESTDIR=$DEST
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