Fedora 24 : suricata (2017-f9f3a78148)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97624

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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:
http://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/suricata-3.2/

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected suricata package.

See Also

https://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/suricata-3.2/

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-f9f3a78148

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97624

File Name: fedora_2017-f9f3a78148.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/9/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:suricata, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/8/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/8/2017

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