USN-2166-1: Net-SNMP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• net-snmp - SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) server and applications

Details

Ken Farnen discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled AgentX timeouts. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash or to
hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2012-6151)

It was discovered that the Net-SNMP ICMP-MIB incorrectly validated input. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10.
(CVE-2014-2284)

Viliam Púčik discovered that the Net-SNMP perl trap handler incorrectly
handled NULL arguments. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the
server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-2285)

It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled AgentX multi-object
requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the server to
hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10. (CVE-2014-2310)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10

• libsnmp30 - 5.7.2~dfsg-8ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.10

• libsnmp15 - 5.4.3~dfsg-2.5ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• libsnmp15 - 5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 10.04

• libsnmp15 - 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2012-6151
• CVE-2014-2284
• CVE-2014-2285
• CVE-2014-2310