- Issued:
- 2009-09-16
- Updated:
- 2009-09-16
RHBA-2009:1450 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
net-snmp bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Topic
Updated net-snmp packages that resolve an issue are now available.
Description
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol used for
network management. The net-snmp packages include various SNMP tools:an
extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting
information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps,
a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perl MIB
browser.
These updated net-snmp packages fix the following bug:
- snmpd, the SNMP daemon, did not expect the packet counters in the
/proc/net/snmp and /proc/net/snmp6 files to be 64-bit on 64-bit systems.
When these counters exceeded 32 bits in size, which would occur when the
Linux kernel sent or received greater than 4,294,967,296 (2^32) packets,
then the snmpd daemon would terminate abnormally. With this update, the
snmpd daemon no longer crashes when it encounters a packet counter in the
directories listed above that is greater than 32 bits in size, thus
resolving the issue. (BZ#521757)
All users of net-snmp are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which resolve this issue.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.2 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.2 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.2 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.2 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.2 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 521757 - [MC5.3]The snmpd terminated abnormally.
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
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