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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-cf58e1cbd1 Moderate Segmentation Fault in Suricata

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Calendar Grey November 17, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch resolves a crash issue within the SMTP parsing component, incorporating essential bug resolutions and enhancements beneficial for Suricata users.
This update fixes a segfault in the SMTP parser

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.

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.

* Tue Nov 6 2018 Steve Grubb - 4.0.6-1

- New upstream bugfix release

- Fixes CVE-2018-18956 Segmentation fault in the ProcessMimeEntity function

* Mon Aug 13 2018 Steve Grubb - 4.0.5-3

- Consolidate branches so that everything is in sync (#1614935)

* Fri Aug 10 2018 Jason Taylor 4.0.5-2

- fixes bz#1614935

* Wed Jul 18 2018 Jason Taylor - 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 - 4.0.4-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild

* Mon Jul 9 2018 Jason Taylor - 4.0.4-2

- bumped release for build against hyperscan 5.0.0

* Mon Jul 9 2018 Jason Taylor - 4.0.4-1

- added gcc-c++ buildrequires

[ 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

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-cf58e1cbd1' 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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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 4.0.6
Release: 1.fc28
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Summary: Intrusion Detection System

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