SB2018110754 - Fedora 29 update for suricata 



SB2018110754 - Fedora 29 update for suricata

Published: November 7, 2018 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2018110754
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Segmentation fault (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18956)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to segmentation fault in the ProcessMimeEntity function in util-decode-mime.c when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted input to the SMTP parser, trigger segfault and cause daemon crash.

Note: according to MITRE statement, the vulnerability has been exploited in the wild in November 2018.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.