Fedora: Critical Security Update for Collectd SNMP Plugin Double Free

collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically

and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways,

for example in RRD files.

Upstream released new version. See for

the list of changes. Fixes CVE-2017-16820 (double free in snmp plugin)

[ 1 ] Bug #1516450 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function in snmp.c [epel-7]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516450

[ 2 ] Bug #1516449 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function in snmp.c [epel-6]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516449

[ 3 ] Bug #1516451 - CVE-2017-16820 collectd: double free in csnmp_read_table function in snmp.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1516451

su -c 'dnf upgrade collectd' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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