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Debian DSA-873-1 : net-snmp - programming error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22739

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A security vulnerability has been found in Net-SNMP releases that could allow a denial of service attack against Net-SNMP agents that have opened a stream based protocol (e.g. TCP but not UDP). By default, Net-SNMP does not open a TCP port.

Solution

Upgrade the net-snmp package.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a net-snmp package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 5.1.2-6.2.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-873

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22739

File Name: debian_DSA-873.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:net-snmp, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/26/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2177

BID: 14168

CWE: 20

DSA: 873