Fedora 29 Suricata: 2018-787ee605a5 Moderate: SMTP Parser Segfault

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

[ 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-2018-787ee605a5' 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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