Net-SNMP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Ken Farnen discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled AgentX timeouts. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash or to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2012-6151)
14 April 2014
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Net-SNMP could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Ken Farnen discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled AgentX timeouts. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash or to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2012-6151)
It was discovered that the Net-SNMP ICMP-MIB incorrectly validated input. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10. (CVE-2014-2284)
Viliam Púčik discovered that the Net-SNMP perl trap handler incorrectly handled NULL arguments. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-2285)
It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled AgentX multi-object requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2014-2310)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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.