Please Install the Updated Packages.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol used for network management. A denial-of-service flaw was found in the way Net-SNMP processes SNMP GETBULK requests. A remote attacker who issued a specially-crafted request could cause the snmpd server to crash. (CVE-2008-4309) Note: An attacker must have read access to the SNMP server in order to exploit this flaw. In the default configuration, the community name &quot public&quot grants read-only access. In production deployments, it is recommended to change this default community name. All users of net-snmp should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue.

net-snmp on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2008-November/msg00000.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25