Topic

Updated net-snmp packages that fix several bugs and add one enhancement are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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 management information base (MIB) browser.

These updated net-snmp packages include a number of bug fixes and enhancements.
Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Refer to the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 Technical Notes for information about these
changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.7_Technical_Notes/net-snmp.html#RHBA-2011-1076

All users of net-snmp are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
provide numerous bug fixes and enhancements.

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/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 - 554956 - The snmpd reports a error message 'error on subcontainer '' insert (-1)' for alias interfaces
• BZ - 556824 - udpTable has wrong indexes
• BZ - 556842 - (typo) Wrong option -CP in snmpnetstat manpage
• BZ - 561875 - Leak of FD in rmon-mib
• BZ - 562376 - snmpd logs error messages
• BZ - 574035 - snmpget return 0 return code on short passphrase error
• BZ - 583807 - linkUpDownNotifications does not behave as described in snmpd.conf man page
• BZ - 584769 - logrotate does restart rather than reload.
• BZ - 584807 - typo in code of agent/mibgroup/ip-mib/data_access/systemstats_common.c
• BZ - 587617 - testsuite from net-snmp source package fails for tcp6/udp6
• BZ - 587785 - snmpd mistakenly returns nocreation error
• BZ - 591416 - Recompilation produces errors
• BZ - 595322 - hrStorage does not seem to keep track of indexes
• BZ - 600319 - net-snmp-5.3.2.2-broadcast-response.patch broke answering to non local host on some interfaces
• BZ - 613584 - manual page of snmptrapd is buggy for option -D
• BZ - 630905 - Problem with counting procs
• BZ - 645303 - snmptranslate reports Unsigned32 as -1
• BZ - 645317 - snmpwalk reports an incorrect result of ipv6InterfaceForwarding.
• BZ - 654384 - hrStorageSize from HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES mib reports incorrect size for filesystems > 16TB
• BZ - 659354 - snmpd returns 0 values in HOST-RESOURCES-MIB on ppc64
• BZ - 663863 - proxied OIDs unspecified in proxy statement in snmpd.conf
• BZ - 676669 - snmpwalk for hrStorageTable doesn't return correct information after receiving HUP signal
• BZ - 676955 - snmptrapd leaks memory when NetSNMP::TrapReceiver is used for trap handlers
• BZ - 680347 - [5.6] When snmpd starts up, no information of an inactive IPv6 interface can be captured.
• BZ - 683142 - SEGV in snmpd in var_hrswrun() in host/hr_swrun.c.
• BZ - 702626 - snmpd reports wrong memory usage
• BZ - 704443 - [TAHI][SNMP-MIP] net-snmp respond to the SNMPv2C GetRequest and GetNextRequest with error community type field

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.7_Technical_Notes/net-snmp.html#RHBA-2011-1076