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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2018-9051b49e75
2018-12-05 00:42:24.033522
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Name : suricata
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 4.0.6
Release : 1.el7
URL :
http://suricata-ids.org/
Summary : Intrusion Detection System
Description :
The Suricata Engine is an Open Source Next Generation Intrusion
Detection and Prevention Engine. This engine is not intended to
just replace or emulate the existing tools in the industry, but
will bring new ideas and technologies to the field. This new Engine
supports Multi-threading, Automatic Protocol Detection (IP, TCP,
UDP, ICMP, HTTP, TLS, FTP and SMB! ), Gzip Decompression, Fast IP
Matching, and GeoIP identification.
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Update Information:
This update fixes a segfault in the SMTP parser. This bug is tracked as
CVE-2018-18956. There are a number of other bugfixes and performance
improvements.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1646984 - CVE-2018-18956 suricata: Segmentation fault in the
ProcessMimeEntity function [epel-7]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646984
[ 2 ] Bug #1646983 - CVE-2018-18956 suricata: Segmentation fault in the
ProcessMimeEntity function [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646983
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update suricata' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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