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Fedora 25 Suricata 3.2.1: Security Update with Enhanced Features

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Updates in Suricata's recent upstream security version feature enhanced packet inspection and better SSL/TLS integration for CentOS 7.
This is a new upstream feature and security release

Summary

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.

Update Information:

This is a new upstream feature and security release. Improvements include: bypass; pre-filter -- fast packet keywords; TLS improvements; ICS protocol additions: DNP3 CIP/ENIP; SHA1/SHA256 for file matching, logging & extraction; NIC offloading disabled by default; unix socket enabled by default; and App Layer stats. Documentation: https://docs.suricata.io/en/suricata-3.2/

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Topics Covered

security advisory intrusion detection Fedora security features Packet Filtering Suricata TLS improvements

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-f3aac83a8f 2017-03-08 08:22:14.060548
Name : suricata Product : Fedora 25 Version : 3.2.1 Release : 1.fc25 URL : 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.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade suricata' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: suricata
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 3.2.1
Release: 1.fc25
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Summary: Intrusion Detection System

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Topics Covered

security advisory intrusion detection Fedora security features Packet Filtering Suricata TLS improvements

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