USN-190-1: SNMP vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-190-1

29th September, 2005

net-snmp vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 5.04
  • Ubuntu 4.10

Details

A remote Denial of Service has been discovered in the SMNP (Simple
Network Management Protocol) library. If a SNMP agent uses TCP sockets
for communication, a malicious SNMP server could exploit this to crash
the agent. Please note that by default SNMP uses UDP sockets.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 5.04:
snmpd
libsnmp5
Ubuntu 4.10:
snmpd
libsnmp5

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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References

CVE-2005-2177