Protection Mechanism Failure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package suricata  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-SURICATA-1560119
  • published7 Feb 2018
  • disclosed7 Feb 2018

Introduced: 7 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-6794  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:12.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream suricata package and not the suricata package as distributed by Debian.

Suricata before 4.0.4 is prone to an HTTP detection bypass vulnerability in detect.c and stream-tcp.c. If a malicious server breaks a normal TCP flow and sends data before the 3-way handshake is complete, then the data sent by the malicious server will be accepted by web clients such as a web browser or Linux CLI utilities, but ignored by Suricata IDS signatures. This mostly affects IDS signatures for the HTTP protocol and TCP stream content; signatures for TCP packets will inspect such network traffic as usual.