Fedora 25: suricata Security Update
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/
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 : https://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.
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