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USN-190-1: SNMP vulnerability

30 September 2005

SNMP vulnerability

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Releases

Details

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.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 5.04
  • snmpd -
  • libsnmp5 -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • snmpd -
  • libsnmp5 -

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

References

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