RHBA-2013:1111 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated net-snmp packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.

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:

• In previous Net-SNMP releases, snmpd reported an invalid speed of network

interfaces in IF-MIB::ifTable and IF-MIB::ifXTable if the interface had a speed
other than 10, 100, 1000 or 2500 MB/s. Thus, the net-snmp ifHighSpeed value
returned was "0" compared to the correct speed as reported in ethtool, if the
Virtual Connect speed was set to, for example, 0.9 Gb/s. With this update, the
ifHighSpeed value returns the correct speed as reported in ethtool, and snmpd
correctly reports non-standard network interface speeds. (BZ#986192)

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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.3 i386

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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