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Fedora 42: Suricata High Threats CVE-2025-53537 & CVE-2025-53538 Advisory

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2025
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Critical vulnerabilities in Suricata on Fedora 42 need prompt action. Users should prioritize updates for their security.
CVE-2025-53537: HIGH CVE-2025-53538: HIGH

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:

CVE-2025-53537: HIGH CVE-2025-53538: HIGH

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory intrusion detection security issue fedora high Suricata

Change Log

* Fri Aug 8 2025 Steve Grubb 7.0.11-1 - New bugfix release * Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 7.0.10-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-f555a9146a 2025-08-21 00:54:07.314158+00:00 Name : suricata Product : Fedora 42 Version : 7.0.11 Release : 1.fc42 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 --advisory FEDORA-2025-f555a9146a' 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

Name: suricata
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 7.0.11
Release: 1.fc42
URL:
Summary: Intrusion Detection System

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory intrusion detection security issue fedora high Suricata

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