(RHSA-2023:2444) Moderate: net-snmp security and bug fix update

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.