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Fedora 21 : net-snmp-5.7.2-23.fc21 (2014-9982)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77801

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update package fixes following bugs :

 - CVE-2014-3565 net-snmp: snmptrapd crash when handling an SNMP trap containing a ifMtu with a NULL type

 - net-snmp-cert now works without net-snmp-devel package installed

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=1125155

http://www.nessus.org/u?dac27f04

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77801

File Name: fedora_2014-9982.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/23/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:net-snmp

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3565

BID: 69477

FEDORA: 2014-9982