RHBA-2010:0422 - 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, could have leaked file descriptors periodically when

retrieving data for RMON-MIB. This leak could have exhausted file descriptors
for the snmpd process and rendered the daemon unable to respond to SNMP
requests. With this update, all unnecessary file descriptors are appropriately
closed so that snmpd thus no longer leaks file descriptors. (BZ#585202)

All users of net-snmp are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the 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 Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 585202 - Leak of FD in rmon-mib

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)