Moderate: net-snmp security and bug fix update

2023-05-1600:00:00

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osv.dev

net-snmp

security

bug fix

snmp

cve-2022-44792

cve-2022-44793

almalinux

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

71.0%

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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.

Security Fix(es):

net-snmp: NULL Pointer Exception when handling ipDefaultTTL (CVE-2022-44792)
net-snmp: NULL Pointer Exception when handling pv6IpForwarding (CVE-2022-44793)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.