Ubuntu Security Notice USN-564-1
9th January, 2008
net-snmp vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 7.10
- Ubuntu 7.04
- Ubuntu 6.10
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Software description
- net-snmp
Details
Bill Trost discovered that snmpd did not properly limit GETBULK
requests. A remote attacker could specify a large number of
max-repetitions and cause a denial of service via resource
exhaustion.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 7.10:
- snmpd 5.3.1-6ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 7.04:
- snmpd 5.2.3-4ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 6.10:
- snmpd 5.2.2-5ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
- snmpd 5.2.1.2-4ubuntu2.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.