Debian DLA-1317-1 : net-snmp security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 108607

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a heap corruption vulnerability in the net-snmp framework which exchanges server management information in a network.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in net-snmp version 5.7.2.1+dfsg-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your net-snmp packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00020.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/net-snmp

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 108607

File Name: debian_DLA-1317.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2018

Updated: 3/29/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsnmp15-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsnmp-perl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsnmp15, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsnmp-base, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsnmp-python, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tkmib, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:snmpd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:snmp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsnmp-dev

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000116