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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : ucd-snmp vulnerability (USN-190-2)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 20604
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
USN-190-1 fixed a vulnerability in the net-snmp library. It was discovered that the same problem also affects the ucs-snmp implementation (which is used by the Cyrus email server).Original advisory :
A remote Denial of Service has been discovered in the SMNP (Simple Network Management Protocol) library. If a SNMP agent uses TCP sockets for communication, a malicious SNMP server could exploit this to crash the agent. Please note that by default SNMP uses UDP sockets.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected libsnmp4.2 and / or libsnmp4.2-dev packages.Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 20604
File Name: ubuntu_USN-190-2.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 1/15/2006
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsnmp4.2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsnmp4.2-dev
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2005
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2005-2177