Important: net-snmp

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in Net-SNMP through version 5.73, where an Improper Privilege Management issue occurs due to SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB allows running arbitrary commands as root. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-15862)

Affected Packages:

net-snmp

Issue Correction:
Run yum update net-snmp to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-60.22.amzn1.i686  
    net-snmp-python-5.5-60.22.amzn1.i686  
    net-snmp-libs-5.5-60.22.amzn1.i686  
    net-snmp-perl-5.5-60.22.amzn1.i686  
    net-snmp-devel-5.5-60.22.amzn1.i686  
    net-snmp-utils-5.5-60.22.amzn1.i686  
    net-snmp-5.5-60.22.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    net-snmp-5.5-60.22.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-60.22.amzn1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-python-5.5-60.22.amzn1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-perl-5.5-60.22.amzn1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-5.5-60.22.amzn1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-devel-5.5-60.22.amzn1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-libs-5.5-60.22.amzn1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-utils-5.5-60.22.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-15862

Mitre: CVE-2020-15862