RHBA-2012:0674 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated net-snmp packages that fix one bug 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.

This update fixes the following bug:

• The SNMP daemon (snmpd) did not properly encode a negative Request-ID in

outgoing requests (for example during trap operations). As a consequence, a
32-bit value could be encoded in 5 bytes instead of 4, and the outgoing requests
could be refused by some implementations of the SNMP protocol as invalid. With
this update, a Request-ID can no longer become negative and is always encoded in
4 bytes. (BZ#820850)

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

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
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

CVEs

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References

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