SciLinux: CVE-2008-6123 Moderate: net-snmp Remote Access Issue

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:48:15 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: net-snmp on SL3.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: net-snmp security update
Issue date:	2009-03-26
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-6123

It was discovered that the snmpd daemon did not use TCP wrappers
correctly, causing network hosts access restrictions defined in
"/etc/hosts.allow" and "/etc/hosts.deny" to not be honored. A remote
attacker could use this flaw to bypass intended access restrictions.
(CVE-2008-6123)

This issue only affected configurations where hosts.allow and hosts.deny
were used to limit access to the SNMP server. To obtain information from
the server, the attacker would have to successfully authenticate,
usually by providing a correct community string.

After installing the update, the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons will be
restarted automatically.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.27.src.rpm
 i386:
net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.27.i386.rpm
net-snmp-devel-5.0.9-2.30E.27.i386.rpm
net-snmp-libs-5.0.9-2.30E.27.i386.rpm
net-snmp-perl-5.0.9-2.30E.27.i386.rpm
net-snmp-utils-5.0.9-2.30E.27.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
net-snmp-5.0.9-2.30E.27.x86_64.rpm
net-snmp-devel-5.0.9-2.30E.27.x86_64.rpm
net-snmp-libs-5.0.9-2.30E.27.i386.rpm
net-snmp-libs-5.0.9-2.30E.27.x86_64.rpm
net-snmp-perl-5.0.9-2.30E.27.x86_64.rpm
net-snmp-utils-5.0.9-2.30E.27.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson