Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for net-snmp. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for net-snmp
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35578
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35578/
DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for net-snmp. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a
DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of
GETBULK requests and can be exploited to trigger a division by zero
and crash the "snmpd" daemon via a specially crafted request.
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Red Hat bug report.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2009:1124-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1124.html
Red Hat Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506903
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