[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: suricata-4.0.6-1.fc27
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-d05860129f
2018-11-17 02:07:42.735913
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Name : suricata
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 4.0.6
Release : 1.fc27
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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ChangeLog:
* Tue Nov 6 2018 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> - 4.0.6-1
- New upstream bugfix release
- Fixes CVE-2018-18956 Segmentation fault in the ProcessMimeEntity function
* Mon Aug 13 2018 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> - 4.0.5-3
- Consolidate branches so that everything is in sync (#1614935)
* Fri Aug 10 2018 Jason Taylor <jtfas90(a)gmail.com> 4.0.5-2
- fixes bz#1614935
* Wed Jul 18 2018 Jason Taylor <jtfas90(a)gmail.com> - 4.0.5-1
- upstream security fix release
- addresses CVE-2018-10242, CVE-2018-10243, CVE-2018-10244
* Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 4.0.4-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Jul 9 2018 Jason Taylor <jtfas90(a)gmail.com> - 4.0.4-2
- bumped release for build against hyperscan 5.0.0
* Mon Jul 9 2018 Jason Taylor <jtfas90(a)gmail.com> - 4.0.4-1
- added gcc-c++ buildrequires
* Thu Feb 15 2018 Jason Taylor <jtfas90(a)gmail.com> - 4.0.4-1
- fixes bz#1543250 and bz#1543251
- multiple upstream bugfixes
* Fri Feb 9 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 4.0.3-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Dec 11 2017 Jason Taylor <jtfas90(a)gmail.com> 4.0.3-2
- Added prelude support
* Fri Dec 8 2017 Jason Taylor <jtfas90(a)gmail.com> 4.0.3-1
- Upstream bugfix release
* Wed Oct 18 2017 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> 4.0.1-1
- Upstream bugfix update
* Tue Sep 26 2017 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> 4.0.0-2
- Make suricata user own /run/suricata (#1396150)
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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 "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-d05860129f' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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