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Gentoo Linux GLSA 200901-15 Normal: Net-SNMP Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A critical security flaw in Net-SNMP has been discovered, as noted in Gentoo GLSA 202201-12, demanding immediate attention from users.
A vulnerability in Net-SNMP could lead to a Denial of Service.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-15 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Net-SNMP: Denial of Service Date: January 21, 2009 Bugs: #245306 ID: 200901-15

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in Net-SNMP could lead to a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Net-SNMP is a collection of tools for generating and retrieving SNMP data.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/net-snmp < 5.4.2.1 >= 5.4.2.1
========== Oscar Mira-Sanchez reported an integer overflow in the netsnmp_create_subtree_cache() function in agent/snmp_agent.c when processing GETBULK requests.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could send a specially crafted r...

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