Suricata 3.0.1 Beta is out, Now Support Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus (LTS)
How To Install Suricata 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04 and other Ubuntu derivative systems
Suricata is an open source, multi-platform and totally free network intrusion prevention and detection engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) and its supporting vendors.
The IDS/IPS engine is multi-threaded
Suricata’s IDS/IPS engine is multi-threaded and has native IPv6 support. It's capable of loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports the Barnyard and Barnyard2 tools.
Suricata 3.0.1 is available. This release fixes many important issues in 3.0 and upgrading is highly recommended.
Highlights
– fixes for multiple stability issues
– many memory leak fixes
– Hyperscan MPM support (experimental)
To Install Suricata 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands :
Upgrading,
Upgrading is simple:
Remove
To remove Suricata from your system:
NOTE: Libhtp is included in the Suricata tarball, so there is normally no need to download it separately.
libhtp 0.5.19 is bundled in the 3.0.1 release.
libhtp 0.5.18 is bundled in the 3.0 release.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.
Suricata is an open source, multi-platform and totally free network intrusion prevention and detection engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) and its supporting vendors.
The IDS/IPS engine is multi-threaded
Suricata’s IDS/IPS engine is multi-threaded and has native IPv6 support. It's capable of loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports the Barnyard and Barnyard2 tools.
Suricata 3.0.1 is available. This release fixes many important issues in 3.0 and upgrading is highly recommended.
Highlights
– fixes for multiple stability issues
– many memory leak fixes
– Hyperscan MPM support (experimental)
How to : Install Suricata 3.0.1 on Ubuntu / Elementary OS / Linux Mint
To Install Suricata 3.0.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oisf/suricata-beta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install suricata
Upgrading,
Upgrading is simple:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Remove
To remove Suricata from your system:
sudo apt-get remove suricata
NOTE: Libhtp is included in the Suricata tarball, so there is normally no need to download it separately.
libhtp 0.5.19 is bundled in the 3.0.1 release.
libhtp 0.5.18 is bundled in the 3.0 release.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.
