Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1540-1 net-snmp -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 09 Oct 2018
- Affected Packages:
- net-snmp
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 910638.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-18065. - More information:
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Magnus K. Stubman found that an authenticated remote attacker could crash an instance of Net-SNMP by sending a specially crafted UDP packet resulting in a denial-of-service.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 5.7.2.1+dfsg-1+deb8u2.We recommend that you upgrade your net-snmp packages.
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