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RHEL 2.1 : ucd-snmp (RHSA-2005:720)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19413

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated ucd-snmp packages that a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for network management.

A denial of service bug was found in the way ucd-snmp uses network stream protocols. A remote attacker could send a ucd-snmp agent a specially crafted packet which will cause the agent to crash. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-2177 to this issue.

All users of ucd-snmp should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected ucd-snmp, ucd-snmp-devel and / or ucd-snmp-utils packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2005-2177

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:720

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19413

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-720.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2005

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ucd-snmp-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ucd-snmp-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ucd-snmp

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2177

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2005:720