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openSUSE Security Update : net-snmp (openSUSE-2015-568)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85837

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

net-snmp was updated to fix one secuirty vulnerability and 2 bugs.

 - Fix an incompletely initialized vulnerability within the snmp_pdu_parse() function of snmp_api.c. (bnc#940188, CVE-2015-5621)

 - Add build requirement 'procps' to fix a net-snmp-config error. (bsc#935863)

 - Stop snmptrapd on removal.

Solution

Update the affected net-snmp packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=935863

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=940188

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85837

File Name: openSUSE-2015-568.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsnmp30, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsnmp30-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsnmp30-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsnmp30-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:net-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:net-snmp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:net-snmp-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:net-snmp-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:net-snmp-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:net-snmp-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:net-snmp-python-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:perl-snmp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:snmp-mibs, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5621