gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201507-17.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201507-17">
  <title>SNMP: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in SNMP could lead to a Denial of Service
    condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">net-snmp</product>
  <announced>2015-07-10</announced>
  <revised count="2">2015-07-10</revised>
  <bug>522062</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-analyzer/net-snmp" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.7.3_pre5-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">5.7.3_pre5-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>SNMP is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of
      network equipment.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A specially crafted trap message triggers a conversion to an erroneous
      variable type when the -OQ option is used.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All SNMP users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
      "&gt;=net-analyzer/net-snmp-5.7.3_pre5-r1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3565">CVE-2014-3565</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-05-11T16:23:12Z">K_F</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2015-07-10T14:05:46Z">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>