net-snmp vulnerability

23 May 2012

net-snmp vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Summary

Net-SNMP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description

• net-snmp - SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) server and applications

Details

It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly performed entry lookups in the extension table. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request and cause the SNMP server to crash, leading to a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

libsnmp15 - 5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.10

libsnmp15 - 5.4.3~dfsg-2.2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.04

libsnmp15 - 5.4.3~dfsg-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

libsnmp15 - 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

libsnmp15 - 5.4.1~dfsg-4ubuntu4.4

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2012-2141