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Red Hat: RHSA-2020:5201-01 Important: Net-SNMP Privilege Management Issue

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has published a crucial advisory regarding a significant net-snmp update aimed at rectifying vulnerabilities and bugs within RHEL 8.
An update for net-snmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The net-snmp packages provide various libraries and tools for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), including an SNMP library, an extensible agent, tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perl Management Information Base (MIB) browser.
Security Fix(es):
* net-snmp: Improper Privilege Management in EXTEND MIB may lead to privileged commands execution (CVE-2020-15862)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
* net-snmp flood messages file with 'ipaddress_linux: could not open /proc/net/if_inet6: No such file or directory' if ipv6 is disabled on the system. (BZ#1755818)

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15862 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0):
aarch64: net-snmp-5.8-7.el8_0.4.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-5.8-7.el8_0.4.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-debugsource-5.8-7.el8_0.4.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.8-7.el8_0.4.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-libs-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-perl-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-utils-5.8-7.el8_0.4.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-utils-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: net-snmp-5.8-7.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-5.8-7.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-debugsource-5.8-7.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.8-7.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-libs-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-perl-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-utils-5.8-7.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-utils-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: net-snmp-5.8-7.el8_0.4.s390x.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-5.8-7.el8_0.4.s390x.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.s390x.rpm net-snmp-debuginfo-5.8-7.el8_0.4.s390x.rpm net-snmp-debugsource-5.8-7.el8_0.4.s390x.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.8-7.el8_0.4.s390x.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5201-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5201
Issue date: 2020-11-24

Topic

An update for net-snmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0Update Services for SAP Solutions.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory red hat bug fix important net-snmp snmp privilege management

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.0) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1873038 - CVE-2020-15862 net-snmp: Improper Privilege Management in EXTEND MIB may lead to privileged commands execution

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