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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2023:2444 Moderate: net-snmp Update

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical security notice regarding net-snmp update on Red Hat addresses recent vulnerabilities discovered.
An update for net-snmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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: NULL Pointer Exception when handling ipDefaultTTL (CVE-2022-44792)
* net-snmp: NULL Pointer Exception when handling pv6IpForwarding (CVE-2022-44793)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux net-snmp network tools NULL Pointer Exception

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-44792 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-44793 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: net-snmp-5.9.1-9.el9.src.rpm
aarch64: net-snmp-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-debugsource-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-libs-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-libs-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-perl-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-perl-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-utils-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm net-snmp-utils-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm python3-net-snmp-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm python3-net-snmp-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: net-snmp-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-agent-libs-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-debugsource-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-devel-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-libs-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-libs-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-perl-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-perl-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-utils-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm net-snmp-utils-debuginfo-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm python3-net-snmp-5.9.1-9.el9.ppc64le.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2444-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2444
Issue date: 2023-05-09

Topic

An update for net-snmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux net-snmp network tools NULL Pointer Exception

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2141897 - CVE-2022-44792 net-snmp: NULL Pointer Exception when handling ipDefaultTTL

2141898 - CVE-2022-44793 net-snmp: NULL Pointer Exception when handling pv6IpForwarding

2151540 - Memory leak when IPv6 is disabled through ipv6.disable=1 [RHEL-9]

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