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Debian DSA-3254-1 : suricata - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83307

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the suricata packages.

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

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/suricata

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3254

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83307

File Name: debian_DSA-3254.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:suricata

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0971

DSA: 3254