Download Suricata 1.3.5

Suricata is an open source network Intrusion Detections System (IDS), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and Network Security Monitoring engine. The development is being overseen by the Open Information Security Foundation, with support from the community and various manufacturers. Version 1.3.5 was released last Thursday and included an important memory leak. The full release notes can be found below.

Suricata 1.3.5 Available!

The OISF development team is pleased to announce Suricata 1.3.5. This a maintenance release of Suricata 1.3 with some important fixes. Because of the fixes below, upgrading is highly recommended.

Fixes

• Flow engine memory leak fixed by Ludovico Cavedon (#651)
• Unified2 would overwrite files if file rotation happened within a second of file creation, leading to loss of events/alerts (#664)
• Flow manager mutex used unintialized, fixed by Ludovico Cavedon (#654)
• Windows building in CYGWIN fixed (#630)

Known issues & missing features

There is talk about a possible IPv6 evasion, but since no details are available this isn’t addressed yet. Due to the nature of the fixes above, we decided to release anyway. Once we get details on the evasion, we’ll push out another update.