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MiracleLinux 4 : net-snmp-5.5-54.AXS4.1 (AXSA:2015-441:02)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 289960

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2015-441:02 advisory.

 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for network management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools:
 an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps and a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP. This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons, documentation, etc.
 NET-SNMP utilities will be installed when the net-snmp-utils package is installed successfully.
 With this release, following issue is fixed:
 * CVE-2015-5621:
 This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/5791

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 289960

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2015-441.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5621

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:net-snmp-perl, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:net-snmp, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:net-snmp-python, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:net-snmp-utils, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:net-snmp-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:net-snmp-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5621