Fedora Core 3 : net-snmp-5.2.1.2-FC3.1 (2005-562)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19197

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- Wed Jul 13 2005 Radek Vokal <rvokal at redhat.com>

- CVE-2005-2177 new upstream version fixing DoS (#162908)

- CVE-2005-1740 net-snmp insecure temporary file usage (#158770)

- session free fixed, agentx modules build fine (#157851)

- report gigabit Ethernet speeds using Ethtool (#152480)

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?46b438e4

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19197

File Name: fedora_2005-562.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/14/2005

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:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/13/2005

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2005-562