Debian Security Advisory
DLA-865-1 suricata -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 22 Mar 2017
- Affected Packages:
- suricata
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7177.
- More information:
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It was discovered that there was a vulnerability in suricata, an intrusion detection tool; the IP protocol was not being used to match fragments with their packets allowing a carefully constructed packet (with a different protocol) to be matched, thus creating a packet that would not be re-assembled by the destination host.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, this issue has been fixed in suricata version 1.2.1-2+deb7u1.We recommend that you upgrade your suricata packages.