Fedora 18 : net-snmp-5.7.2-7.fc18 (2013-22949)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 71853

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes CVE-2012-6151 :

- snmpd crashes/hangs when AgentX subagent times-out

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 net-snmp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038007

http://www.nessus.org/u?e9cdcf72

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 71853

File Name: fedora_2013-22949.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/8/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:net-snmp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6151

FEDORA: 2013-22949