Important Suricata update

We just released Suricata 1.3.3 which contains some important accuracy fixes. Also, it should be much more robust against out of memory conditions.

For those of you running Suricata in IPS mode, this is important as well. We found that rules that have the drop or reject actions, were not playing well with thresholding.

So upgrading is highly recommended!

Code changes are not too big, largest changes are due to some extra unittests:

 ChangeLog                           |   11 +
 libhtp/htp/dslib.c                  |    4 +-
 libhtp/htp/hooks.c                  |   31 +-
 libhtp/htp/htp_connection.c         |   34 ++-
 libhtp/htp/htp_connection_parser.c  |   25 +-
 libhtp/htp/htp_parsers.c            |    2 +-
 libhtp/htp/htp_request.c            |    4 +-
 libhtp/htp/htp_request_apache_2_2.c |   24 +-
 libhtp/htp/htp_transaction.c        |   68 +++--
 libhtp/htp/htp_util.c               |   35 ++-
 src/alert-debuglog.c                |    4 +-
 src/app-layer.c                     |    9 +-
 src/decode.h                        |    3 +-
 src/detect-detection-filter.c       |   96 ++++++
 src/detect-engine-alert.c           |   37 ++-
 src/detect-engine-hcbd.c            |    5 +
 src/detect-engine-hhd.c             |  121 +++++++-
 src/detect-engine-hsbd.c            |    5 +
 src/detect-engine-iponly.c          |    5 +-
 src/detect-engine-payload.c         |   26 ++
 src/detect-engine-threshold.c       |   15 +-
 src/detect-filemd5.c                |   24 +-
 src/detect-filestore.c              |   11 +-
 src/detect-filestore.h              |    2 +-
 src/detect-pcre.c                   |  485 +----------------------------
 src/detect-threshold.c              |  569 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 src/detect.c                        |   11 +-
 src/detect.h                        |    2 +-
 src/flow-hash.c                     |   10 +-
 src/flow-timeout.c                  |   10 +-
 src/flow.c                          |    1 -
 src/flow.h                          |   14 +
 src/log-httplog.c                   |    2 +-
 src/runmodes.c                      |    2 +-
 src/source-ipfw.c                   |    1 +
 src/source-pfring.c                 |   20 +-
 src/stream-tcp-reassemble.c         |    4 +-
 src/stream-tcp.c                    |   12 +-
 src/stream.c                        |    3 +-
 src/threads.h                       |    1 +
 src/tmqh-packetpool.c               |    5 +-
 src/util-buffer.h                   |    6 +-
 src/util-debug.c                    |    2 +-
 src/util-host-os-info.c             |   32 +-
 src/util-threshold-config.c         |  210 +++++++++++++
 suricata.yaml.in                    |    6 +-
 46 files changed, 1340 insertions(+), 669 deletions(-)

Suricata 1.3.2 is out

Today we released Suricata 1.3.2. Not a big update, but there are some important fixes in the stream engine, fast_pattern:chop handling, HTTP multipart parsing and the flow keyword with “nostream”.

As the diff stat output shows, it’s a rather light maintenance update over 1.3.1:

 ChangeLog                              |   12 ++
 libhtp/configure.ac                    |    2 +-
 libhtp/htp.pc.in                       |    2 +-
 libhtp/htp/htp.h                       |    2 +-
 src/app-layer-htp-file.c               |  145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/app-layer-htp.c                    |  192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 src/decode.c                           |    3 +
 src/decode.h                           |    1 +
 src/defrag.c                           |    4 +-
 src/detect-engine-content-inspection.c |    9 --
 src/detect-flow.c                      |   68 ++++++++++-
 src/source-af-packet.c                 |    9 ++
 src/source-ipfw.c                      |   13 ++-
 src/source-pfring.c                    |   28 ++---
 src/stream-tcp-reassemble.c            |    1 +
 src/util-cpu.c                         |   10 +-
 16 files changed, 435 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

Only the HTTP changes look big, but that is due to adding some unittests. Same for flow keyword.

Because of the fixes updating is still highly recommended. Most fixes improve detection accuracy.

Full notes at our new website: http://suricata-ids.org/2012/10/03/suricata-1-3-2-available/