Issued:
2013-09-09
Updated:
2013-09-09

RHBA-2013:1216 - 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 6 Extended Update Support.

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:

  • When an AgentX subagent disconnected from the SNMP daemon (snmpd), the daemon did not properly check that there were no active requests queued in the subagent and destroyed the session. Consequently, the session was referenced by snmpd later when processing queued requests and because it was already destroyed, snmpd terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault or looped indefinitely. This update adds several checks to prevent the destruction of sessions with active requests, and snmpd no longer crashes in the described scenario. (BZ#1002859)

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 https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.3i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support6.3ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support6.3s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI6.3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI6.3i386

Updated Packages

  • net-snmp-perl-5.5-41.el6_3.5.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.5-41.el6_3.5.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-python-5.5-41.el6_3.5.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.5-41.el6_3.5.i686.rpm
  • net-snmp-utils-5.5-41.el6_3.5.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-41.el6_3.5.i686.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.5-41.el6_3.5.s390.rpm
  • net-snmp-perl-5.5-41.el6_3.5.ppc64.rpm
  • net-snmp-utils-5.5-41.el6_3.5.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.5-41.el6_3.5.ppc.rpm
  • net-snmp-perl-5.5-41.el6_3.5.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.5-41.el6_3.5.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.5-41.el6_3.5.ppc64.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.5-41.el6_3.5.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.5-41.el6_3.5.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.5-41.el6_3.5.ppc64.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.5-41.el6_3.5.ppc64.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-41.el6_3.5.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-devel-5.5-41.el6_3.5.i686.rpm
  • net-snmp-utils-5.5-41.el6_3.5.i686.rpm
  • net-snmp-perl-5.5-41.el6_3.5.i686.rpm
  • net-snmp-python-5.5-41.el6_3.5.i686.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.5-41.el6_3.5.ppc.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-41.el6_3.5.s390.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-41.el6_3.5.ppc64.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.5-41.el6_3.5.s390.rpm
  • net-snmp-python-5.5-41.el6_3.5.ppc64.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.5-41.el6_3.5.src.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.5-41.el6_3.5.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-41.el6_3.5.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-utils-5.5-41.el6_3.5.ppc64.rpm
  • net-snmp-5.5-41.el6_3.5.s390x.rpm
  • net-snmp-python-5.5-41.el6_3.5.x86_64.rpm
  • net-snmp-libs-5.5-41.el6_3.5.i686.rpm
  • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-41.el6_3.5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information