Download Suricata 1.4.2

Suricata is an open source network intrusion detections system (IDS), intrusion prevention system (IPS), and network security monitoring engine. It can be used to monitor network traffic and alert a system administrator if anything suspicious is detected. Development is overseen by the Open Information Security Foundation, with support from the community and various manufacturers. Version 1.4.2 of Suricata has now been released and some important issues have been fixed.

Improvements

• No longer force “nocase” to be used on http_host
• Invalidate rule if uppercase content is used for http_host w/o nocase
• Warn user if bpf is used in af-packet IPS mode
• Better test for available libjansson version

Fixes

• Fixed accuracy issues with relative pcre matching (#784)
• Improved accuracy of file_data keyword (#788)
• Invalid negative depth (#770)
• Fix http host parsing for IPv6 addresses (#761)
• Fix fast.log formatting issues (#773)
• Fixed deadlock in flowvar set code for http buffers (#801)
• Various signature ordering improvements
• Minor stream engine fix