TITLE:
Net-SNMP Unauthenticated MIB Object Access Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA9697

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9697/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
Net-snmp 5.x

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been identified in Net-SNMP, which can be
exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error. This
reportedly makes it is possible for a user or community to gain
access to data in MIB objects that they explicitly have been
restricted access to.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.0.9:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12694

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=182697

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