PT-2017-7507 · Open Information Security Foundation+1 · Suricata+1

Victor Julien · Published 2015-01-17 · Updated 2017-03-24 · CVE-2015-8954

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Suricata versions prior to 2.0.6

Description The issue is related to the MemcmpLowercase function, which improperly excludes the first byte from comparisons. This might allow remote attackers to bypass intrusion-prevention functionality via a crafted HTTP request.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.6, update to version 2.0.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1052

CVE-2015-8954

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suricata

References · 13

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8954 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8954 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1052 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8954 · Security Note
• https://suricata-ids.org/2015/01/15/suricata-2-0-6-available · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2015-8954 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777523 · Note
• https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/1364 · Note