Suricata CVE-2015-0971 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	74585
Class:	Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:	CVE-2015-0971
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 11 2015 12:00AM
Updated:	Aug 12 2015 10:24PM
Credit:	Kostya Kortchinsky
Vulnerable:	Suricata Suricata 2.0.7 Suricata Suricata 2.0.6 Suricata Suricata 2.0.4 Suricata Suricata 2.0.3 Debian Linux 6.0 sparc Debian Linux 6.0 s/390 Debian Linux 6.0 powerpc Debian Linux 6.0 mips Debian Linux 6.0 ia-64 Debian Linux 6.0 ia-32 Debian Linux 6.0 arm Debian Linux 6.0 amd64 AlienVault AlienVault 5.0.4 AlienVault AlienVault 5.0 AlienVault AlienVault 4.15.2 AlienVault AlienVault 4.15.1 AlienVault AlienVault 4.15 AlienVault AlienVault 4.14 AlienVault AlienVault 4.13 AlienVault AlienVault 4.12.1 AlienVault AlienVault 4.12
Not Vulnerable:	Suricata Suricata 2.0.8 AlienVault AlienVault 5.1

Suricata CVE-2015-0971 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Suricata is prone to denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker may exploit this issue to crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users.

Suricata CVE-2015-0971 Denial of Service Vulnerability

An attacker can use readily available tools to exploit this issue.

Suricata CVE-2015-0971 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.

Suricata CVE-2015-0971 Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Suricata 2.0.8 Available! (Suricata)
  
• Suricata Homepage (Suricata)
  
• Security Advisory - AlienVault v5.1 addresses 6 vulnerabilities (AlenVault)