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security advisorysoftware updateFedoraFedora 11 Snort Update FEDORA-2009-10783 Critical: DoS IPv6 Packet Crash
Update to 2.8.5.1 which includes a fix for CVE-2009-3641 DoS (crash) while printing specially-crafted IPv6 packet using the -v option. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-10783 2009-10-27 05:01:41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : snort Product : Fedora 11 Version : 2.8.5.1 Release : 1.fc11 URL : https://www.snort.org/ Summary : Intrusion detection system Description : Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules based logging and can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort has a real-time alerting capabilty, with alerts being sent to syslog, a separate "alert" file, or as a WinPopup message via Samba's smbclient Edit /etc/snort.conf to configure snort and use snort.d to start snort This rpm is different from previous rpms and while it will not clobber your current snortd file, you will need to modify it. There are 9 different packages available All of them require the base snort rpm. Additionally, you will need to chose a binary to install. /usr/sbin/snort should end up being a symlink to a binary in one of the following configurations: plain plain+flexresp mysql mysql+flexresp postgresql postgresql+flexresp snmp snmp+flexresp bloat mysql+postgresql+flexresp+snmp Please see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/snort-2.8.5.1 There are no rules in this package the license they are released under forbids us from repackaging them and redistributing them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to 2.8.5.1 which includes a fix for CVE-2009-3641 DoS (crash)while printing specially-crafted IPv6 packet using the -v option -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sun Oct 25 2009 Dennis Gilmore - 2.8.5.1-1 - update for CVE-2009-3641 * Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.8.3.2-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Apr 19 2009 Robert Scheck - 2.8.3.2-3 - Build require package libnet10-devel rather libnet10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #530863 - CVE-2009-3641 Snort: DoS (crash) while printing specially-crafted IPv6 packet using the -v option https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530863 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update snort' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list
Nov 24, 2009
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security advisoryfedoracriticalFedora 11: FEDORA-2009-10999 Important: OpenSSH Vulnerability Patch
Update to 2.8.5.1 which includes a fix for CVE-2009-3641 DoS (crash) while printing specially-crafted IPv6 packet using the -v option. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-10751 2009-10-27 05:00:33 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : snort Product : Fedora 10 Version : 2.8.5.1 Release : 1.fc10 URL : https://www.snort.org/ Summary : Intrusion detection system Description : Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules based logging and can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort has a real-time alerting capabilty, with alerts being sent to syslog, a separate "alert" file, or as a WinPopup message via Samba's smbclient Edit /etc/snort.conf to configure snort and use snort.d to start snort This rpm is different from previous rpms and while it will not clobber your current snortd file, you will need to modify it. There are 9 different packages available All of them require the base snort rpm. Additionally, you will need to chose a binary to install. /usr/sbin/snort should end up being a symlink to a binary in one of the following configurations: plain plain+flexresp mysql mysql+flexresp postgresql postgresql+flexresp snmp snmp+flexresp bloat mysql+postgresql+flexresp+snmp Please see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/snort-2.8.5.1 There are no rules in this package the license they are released under forbids us from repackaging them and redistributing them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to 2.8.5.1 which includes a fix for CVE-2009-3641 DoS (crash)while printing specially-crafted IPv6 packet using the -v option -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sun Oct 25 2009 Dennis Gilmore - 2.8.5.1-1 - update for CVE-2009-3641 * Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.8.3.2-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Apr 19 2009 Robert Scheck - 2.8.3.2-3 - Build require package libnet10-devel rather libnet10 * Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.8.3.2-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Feb 16 2009 Dennis Gilmore - 2.8.3.2-1 - update to 2.8.3.2 * Fri Jan 23 2009 Dennis Gilmore - 2.8.1-6 - rebuild for new mysql -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #530863 - CVE-2009-3641 Snort: DoS (crash) while printing specially-crafted IPv6 packet using the -v option https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530863 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update snort' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list
Nov 24, 2009
•Important
Fedora
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