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USN-190-2: ucs-snmp vulnerability

21 November 2005

ucs-snmp vulnerability

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Details

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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 5.10
  • libsnmp4.2 -
Ubuntu 5.04
  • libsnmp4.2 -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • libsnmp4.2 -

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

References

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