Tenable Network Security
Solutions Products Nessus Demos Partners Online Store
Nessus
Download
Plugins
     Newest Plugins
     Obtain an activation code
     View all plugins
     Search
Documentation
Register
Buy Now
ProfessionalFeed Support
Bugs
All the Tenable Products

SuSE 11.2 Security Update: libsnmp15 (2010-02-04)

This script is Copyright (C) 2010 Tenable Network Security, Inc.

FamilySuSE Local Security Checks
Nessus Plugin ID44403 (suse_11_2_libsnmp15-100204.nasl)
Bugtraq ID
CVE IDCVE-2008-6123

Description:
Synopsis :

The remote SuSE system is missing a security patch for libsnmp15

Description :

This update of net-snmp fixes the following bugs:
- truncated walk of hrSWRunPath (bnc#565586)
- crash when 64-bit counters wrap (bnc#523553)
- unknown host names in snmp traps (bnc#514333)
- sensitive host information disclosure (bnc#475532,
CVE-2008-6123)

See also :

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466805
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473328
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475532
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514333
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523553
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565586
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6123

Solution :

Install the libsnmp15 security patch by using 'yast', for example.

Risk factor :

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5.0
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
About Us | Jobs | Whitepapers | Training | Discussion Forums | Support Portal | Blog | RSS Feeds | Contact Us | Legal | Privacy

© Copyright 2002 - 2010 Tenable Network Security(R). All Rights Reserved.

This is the web site for the Nessus Vulnerability Scanner from Tenable Network Security. If you are looking for the probabilistic analysis software from Southwest Research Institute, please visit www.nessus.swri.org