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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-3270-1 net-snmp -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

15 Jan 2023

Affected Packages:

net-snmp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 1024020.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-44792, CVE-2022-44793.

More information:

menglong2234 discovered NULL pointer exceptions in net-snmp, a suite of Simple Network Management Protocol applications, which could could result in debian of service.

• CVE-2022-44792

  A remote attacker (with write access) could trigger a NULL dereference while handling ipDefaultTTL via a crafted UDP packet.

• CVE-2022-44793

  A remote attacker (with write access) could trigger a NULL dereference while handling ipv6IpForwarding via a crafted UDP packet.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 5.7.3+dfsg-5+deb10u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your net-snmp packages.

For the detailed security status of net-snmp please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/net-snmp

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