Moderate: net-snmp security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: net-snmp security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for net-snmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The net-snmp packages provide various libraries and tools for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), including an SNMP library, an extensible agent, tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perl Management Information Base (MIB) browser.

Security Fix(es):

• net-snmp: NULL pointer exception in snmp_oid_compare in snmplib/snmp_api.c resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-18066)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• snmpd crashes due to double-free when freeing security context (BZ#1812938)
  
• net-snmp memory leak (BZ#1832223)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1637572 - CVE-2018-18066 net-snmp: NULL pointer exception in snmp_oid_compare in snmplib/snmp_api.c resulting in a denial of service
• BZ - 1812938 - snmpd crashes due to double-free when freeing security context [rhel-7.7.z]
• BZ - 1832223 - net-snmp memory leak [rhel-7.7.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2018-18066

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate