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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-5215
2008-06-11 02:00:18
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Name : net-snmp
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 5.4.1
Release : 18.fc9
URL :
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/
Summary : A collection of SNMP protocol tools and libraries
Description :
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for
network management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools:
an extensible agent, an SNMP library, 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
mib browser. This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons,
documentation, etc.
You will probably also want to install the net-snmp-utils package,
which contains NET-SNMP utilities.
Building option:
--without tcp_wrappers : disable tcp_wrappers support
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Jun 10 2008 Jan Safranek <jsafranek@redhat.com> 5.4.1-18
- explicitly require lm_sensor > 3 for build (#442718)
- fix various flaws (CVE-2008-2292 CVE-2008-0960)
* Sat May 31 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> 5.4.1-17
- fix sparc handling in /usr/bin/net-snmp-config
* Thu May 29 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> 5.4.1-16
- fix /usr/include/net-snmp-config.h for sparc
* Sun May 25 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> 5.4.1-15
- sparc multilib handling
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #447974 - CVE-2008-0960 net-snmp SNMPv3 authentication bypass (VU#877044)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447974
[ 2 ] Bug #447262 - CVE-2008-2292 net-snmp: buffer overflow in perl module's Perl Module __snprint_value()
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447262
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update net-snmp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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