Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in how Net-SNMP processed GETBULK requests. A remote attacker with read access to the SNMP server could issue a specially-crafted request which would cause snmpd to crash (CVE-2008-4309).
Please note that for this to be successfully exploited, an attacker must have read access to the SNMP server. By default, the public community name grants read-only access, however it is recommended that the default community name be changed in production.
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Affected
net-snmp on Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2008.1,
Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2009.0,
Mandriva Linux 2009.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-4309 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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