Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol used for network management.
A flaw was found in the way Net-SNMP checked an SNMPv3 packet's Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC). An attacker could use this flaw to spoof an authenticated SNMPv3 packet. (CVE-2008-0960)
A buffer overflow was found in the Perl bindings for Net-SNMP. This could be exploited if an attacker could convince an application using the Net-SNMP Perl module to connect to a malicious SNMP agent. (CVE-2008-2292)
All users of net-snmp should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.
Affected
net-snmp on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-0960, CVE-2008-2292 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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