RHBA-2010:0901 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated net-snmp packages that resolve several issues are now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The net-snmp packages provide various libraries and tools for the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP), including an SNMP library, an extensible agent,
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 provide fixes for the following bugs:

• The SNMP daemon, snmpd, returned the incorrect value of either "0.1" or 1.3"

for sysObjectID. This update fixes the value of this OID so that the correct
value, which is "1.3.6.1.4.1.8072.3.2.10", is now returned. (BZ#652223)

• Under certain conditions, and especially on networks with high traffic, snmpd

wrote a lot of "c64 32 bit check failed" and "netsnmp_assert 1 == new_val->high
failed" messages to the system log. Although these messages are harmless and not
indicative of a serious error, they could potentially fill the system log
quickly. This update suppresses these spurious messages in favor of more
meaningful and specific error messages, which are written to the system log only
once. (BZ#652551)

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

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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 652223 - snmpd always returns an incorrect sysObjectID of ".1.3" or ".0.1"
• BZ - 652551 - RHEL 6 SS8: Log files fill up quickly when running hp-snmp-agents

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)