Fedora Core 4 : net-snmp-5.2.1.2-fc4.1 (2005-561)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19190

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

A security vulnerability has been found in Net-SNMP releases that could allow a denial of service attack against Net-SNMP agent's which have opened a stream based protocol (EG, TCP but not UDP; it should be noted that Net-SNMP does not by default open a TCP port).

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7659656&forum_i d=12455

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a757bba9

http://www.nessus.org/u?6ba62226

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19190

File Name: fedora_2005-561.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:net-snmp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:net-snmp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:net-snmp-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:net-snmp-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:net-snmp-perl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:net-snmp-utils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-561