Issued:
2012-05-21
Updated:
2012-05-21

RHBA-2012:0674 - net-snmp bug fix update

Synopsis

net-snmp bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated net-snmp packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The net-snmp packages provide various libraries and tools for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), including an SNMP library, an extensible agent, tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perl Management information Base (MIB) browser.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • The SNMP daemon (snmpd) did not properly encode a negative Request-ID in outgoing requests (for example during trap operations). As a consequence, a 32-bit value could be encoded in 5 bytes instead of 4, and the outgoing requests could be refused by some implementations of the SNMP protocol as invalid. With this update, a Request-ID can no longer become negative and is always encoded in 4 bytes. (BZ#820850)

All users of net-snmp are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • net-snmp-perl-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ppc.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm
  • net-snmp-utils-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.s390.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-perl-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ppc64.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ppc64.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-perl-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ppc.rpm
  • net-snmp-utils-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-utils-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-utils-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ppc.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.s390.rpm
  • net-snmp-utils-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ppc.rpm
  • net-snmp-perl-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.s390.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ia64.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ppc.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.src.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.i386.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ppc.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-perl-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-17.el5_8.1.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information