Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1483-1 net-snmp -- design error
- Date Reported:
- 06 Feb 2008
- Affected Packages:
- net-snmp
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-5846.
- More information:
-
The SNMP agent (snmp_agent.c) in net-snmp before 5.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a GETBULK request with a large max-repeaters value.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.3-7etch2.
For the unstable and testing distributions (sid and lenny, respectively), this problem has been fixed in version 5.4.1~dfsg-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your net-snmp package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/net-snmp_5.2.3-7etch2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/net-snmp_5.2.3-7etch2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/net-snmp_5.2.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/net-snmp_5.2.3-7etch2.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/tkmib_5.2.3-7etch2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-base_5.2.3-7etch2_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-base_5.2.3-7etch2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp-perl_5.2.3-7etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmp_5.2.3-7etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/snmpd_5.2.3-7etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9-dev_5.2.3-7etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/net-snmp/libsnmp9_5.2.3-7etch2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.