Fedora 8 : net-snmp-5.4.1-8.fc8 (2008-9362)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34703

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Mon Jun 23 2008 Jan Safranek <jsafranek at redhat.com> 5.4.1-8

- explicitly require the right version and release of net-snmp and net-snmp-libs (#451225)

- fix CVE-2008-4309

- Tue Jun 10 2008 Jan Safranek <jsafranek at redhat.com> 5.4.1-7

- fix various flaws (CVE-2008-2292 CVE-2008-0960)

- Thu Feb 14 2008 Jan Safranek <jsafranek at redhat.com> 5.4.1-6

- fixing ipNetToMediaNetAddress to show IP address (#432780)

- Thu Nov 15 2007 Jan Safranek <jsafranek at redhat.com> 5.4.1-5

- added procps to build dependencies (#380321)

- fix crash on reading xen interfaces (#386611)

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

Solution

Update the affected net-snmp package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469349

http://www.nessus.org/u?b8e81eea

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34703

File Name: fedora_2008-9362.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:net-snmp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4309

BID: 32020

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2008-9362