Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Suricata before 3.1.2. If an ICMPv4 error packet is received as the first packet on a flow in the to_client direction, it confuses the rule grouping lookup logic. The toclient inspection will then continue with the wrong rule group. This can lead to missed detection.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-10728
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Suricata before 3.1.2. If an ICMPv4 error packet is received as the first packet on a flow in the to_client direction, it confuses the rule grouping lookup logic. The toclient inspection will then continue with the wrong rule group. This can lead to missed detection.
osv:CVE-2016-10728
Complete source record
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"summary": "An issue was discovered in Suricata before 3.1.2. If an ICMPv4 error packet is received as the first packet on a flow in the to_client direction, it confuses the rule grouping lookup logic. The toclient inspection will then continue with the wrong rule group. This can lead to missed detection.",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:00.472943141Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00019.html",
"https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/1880",
"https://suricata-ids.org/2016/09/07/suricata-3-1-2-released/",
"https://github.com/kirillwow/ids_bypass"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439554,
"published_at": "2018-07-23T20:29:00.24+00:00"
}