ALAS2-2021-1582

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-15862  

A flaw was found in Net-SNMP through version 5.73, where an Improper Privilege Management issue occurs due to SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB allows running arbitrary commands as root. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-15862)

ALAS2-2021-1582


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1582
Advisory Release Date: 2021-01-05 23:34 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-01-06 20:38 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2020-15862 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in Net-SNMP through version 5.73, where an Improper Privilege Management issue occurs due to SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB allows running arbitrary commands as root. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-15862)


Affected Packages:

net-snmp


Issue Correction:
Run yum update net-snmp to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
    net-snmp-utils-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
    net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
    net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
    net-snmp-gui-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
    net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
    net-snmp-agent-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
    net-snmp-python-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
    net-snmp-sysvinit-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
    net-snmp-debuginfo-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64

i686:
    net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
    net-snmp-utils-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
    net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
    net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
    net-snmp-gui-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
    net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
    net-snmp-agent-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
    net-snmp-python-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
    net-snmp-sysvinit-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
    net-snmp-debuginfo-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686

src:
    net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.src

x86_64:
    net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
    net-snmp-utils-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
    net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
    net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
    net-snmp-gui-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
    net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
    net-snmp-agent-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
    net-snmp-python-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
    net-snmp-sysvinit-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
    net-snmp-debuginfo-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64