DSA-3254-1 suricata -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3254-1 suricata -- security update

Date Reported:

09 May 2015

Affected Packages:

suricata

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-0971.

More information:

Kostya Kortchinsky of the Google Security Team discovered a flaw in the DER parser used to decode SSL/TLS certificates in suricata. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause suricata to crash.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.7-2+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your suricata packages.