A heap corruption vulnerability was discovered in net-snmp, a suite of Simple Network Management Protocol applications, triggered when parsing the PDU prior to the authentication process. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can take advantage of this flaw to crash the snmpd process (causing a denial of service) or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running snmpd. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 5.7.2.1+dfsg-1+deb8u1. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed before the initial release. We recommend that you upgrade your net-snmp packages. For the detailed security status of net-snmp please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/net-snmp
A heap corruption vulnerability was discovered in net-snmp, a suite of Simple Network Management Protocol applications, triggered when parsing the PDU prior to the authentication process. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can take advantage of this flaw to crash the snmpd process (causing a denial of service) or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running snmpd.
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 5.7.2.1+dfsg-1+deb8u1.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed before the initial release.
We recommend that you upgrade your net-snmp packages.
For the detailed security status of net-snmp please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/net-snmp
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