Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0014: net-snmp (ALINUX3-SA-2026:0014)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 296588

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2026:0014 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2025-68615:
net-snmp is a SNMP application library, tools and daemon. Prior to versions 5.9.5 and 5.10.pre2, a specially crafted packet to an net-snmp snmptrapd daemon can cause a buffer overflow and the daemon to crash. This issue has been patched in versions 5.9.5 and 5.10.pre2.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux 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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 296588

File Name: alinux3_sa_2026-0014.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/26/2026

Updated: 1/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-68615

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-agent-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-perl, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-utils, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:net-snmp-libs

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/22/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-68615

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