Slackware: 2008-320-02 Critical: Net-SNMP Denial of Service Advisory
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November 16, 2008
New net-snmp packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a denial of service issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/net-snmp-5.4.2.1-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to net-snmp-5.4.2.1. This fixes a problem where a user with read access could cause snmpd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4309 (* Security fix *)
Where Find New Packages
HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com?
Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site
for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading
directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/net-snmp-5.4.2.1-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 12.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/net-snmp-5.4.2.1-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 12.0 package:
c585af1a43e86cb7be73382c1ee4e575 net-snmp-5.4.2.1-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package:
0aee48e834e781e8d2b910b5278fd8a7 net-snmp-5.4.2.1-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware -current package:
cc259e3a080404e89d7dab5eb7cbc709 net-snmp-5.4.2.1-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg net-snmp-5.4.2.1-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Then, restart snmpd if the system uses it.
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