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From: "Pierre-Yves Rofes (py)" <py@g.o>
To: gentoo-commits@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa: glsa-200901-15.xml
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:29:53
Message-Id: E1LPlZz-00014I-Ol@stork.gentoo.org
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3 Added: glsa-200901-15.xml
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5 GLSA 200901-15
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10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/security/en/glsa/glsa-200901-15.xml?rev=1.1&view=markup
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15 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
16 <?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
17 <?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
18 <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
19
20 <glsa id="200901-15">
21 <title>Net-SNMP: Denial of Service</title>
22 <synopsis>
23 A vulnerability in Net-SNMP could lead to a Denial of Service.
24 </synopsis>
25 <product type="ebuild">net-snmp</product>
26 <announced>January 21, 2009</announced>
27 <revised>January 21, 2009: 01</revised>
28 <bug>245306</bug>
29 <access>remote</access>
30 <affected>
31 <package name="net-analyzer/net-snmp" auto="yes" arch="*">
32 <unaffected range="ge">5.4.2.1</unaffected>
33 <vulnerable range="lt">5.4.2.1</vulnerable>
34 </package>
35 </affected>
36 <background>
37 <p>
38 Net-SNMP is a collection of tools for generating and retrieving SNMP
39 data.
40 </p>
41 </background>
42 <description>
43 <p>
44 Oscar Mira-Sanchez reported an integer overflow in the
45 netsnmp_create_subtree_cache() function in agent/snmp_agent.c when
46 processing GETBULK requests.
47 </p>
48 </description>
49 <impact type="normal">
50 <p>
51 A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to crash the
52 SNMP server. NOTE: The attacker needs to know the community string to
53 exploit this vulnerability.
54 </p>
55 </impact>
56 <workaround>
57 <p>
58 Restrict access to trusted entities only.
59 </p>
60 </workaround>
61 <resolution>
62 <p>
63 All Net-SNMP users should upgrade to the latest version:
64 </p>
65 <code>
66 # emerge --sync
67 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-analyzer/net-snmp-5.4.2.1&quot;</code>
68 </resolution>
69 <references>
70 <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4309">CVE-2008-4309</uri>
71 </references>
72 <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:57:13 +0000">
73 p-y
74 </metadata>
75 <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:12:01 +0000">
76 p-y
77 </metadata>
78 <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:12:09 +0000">
79 p-y
80 </metadata>
81 </glsa>