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Red Hat 8.1 RHSA-2020:5372 Critical: net-snmp Privilege Management Issue

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial net-snmp security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 has been released to address privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
An update for net-snmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

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.

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 EUS (v. 8.1):
aarch64: net-snmp-5.8-12.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-5.8-12.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-debugsource-5.8-12.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.8-12.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-libs-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-perl-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-utils-5.8-12.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-utils-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: net-snmp-5.8-12.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-5.8-12.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-debugsource-5.8-12.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.8-12.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-libs-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-perl-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-utils-5.8-12.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-utils-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: net-snmp-5.8-12.el8_1.3.s390x.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-5.8-12.el8_1.3.s390x.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.s390x.rpm net-snmp-debuginfo-5.8-12.el8_1.3.s390x.rpm net-snmp-debugsource-5.8-12.el8_1.3.s390x.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.8-12.el8_1.3.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5372-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2020-12-08

Topic

An update for net-snmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1Extended Update Support.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.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.1) - 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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