Synopsis: Moderate: net-snmp security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2015:1385-1
Issue Date: 2015-07-22
CVE Numbers: CVE-2014-3565
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A denial of service flaw was found in the way snmptrapd handled certain
SNMP traps when started with the "-OQ" option. If an attacker sent an SNMP
trap containing a variable with a NULL type where an integer variable type
was expected, it would cause snmptrapd to crash. (CVE-2014-3565)
This update also fixes the following bugs:
* The HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemProcesses object was not implemented
because parts of the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB module were rewritten in an
earlier version of net-snmp. Consequently, HOST-RESOURCES-
MIB::hrSystemProcesses did not provide information on the number of
currently loaded or running processes. With this update, HOST-RESOURCES-
MIB::hrSystemProcesses has been implemented, and the net-snmp daemon
reports as expected.
* The Net-SNMP agent daemon, snmpd, reloaded the system ARP table every 60
seconds. As a consequence, snmpd could cause a short CPU usage spike on
busy systems with a large APR table. With this update, snmpd does not
reload the full ARP table periodically, but monitors the table changes
using a netlink socket.
* Previously, snmpd used an invalid pointer to the current time when
periodically checking certain conditions specified by the "monitor" option
in the /etc/snmpd/snmpd.conf file. Consequently, snmpd terminated
unexpectedly on start with a segmentation fault if a certain entry with
the "monitor" option was used. Now, snmpd initializes the correct pointer
to the current time, and snmpd no longer crashes on start.
* Previously, snmpd expected 8-bit network interface indices when
processing HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrDeviceTable. If an interface index of a
local network interface was larger than 30,000 items, snmpd could
terminate unexpectedly due to accessing invalid memory. Now, processing of
all network sizes is enabled, and snmpd no longer crashes in the described
situation.
* The snmpdtrapd service incorrectly checked for errors when forwarding a
trap with a RequestID value of 0, and logged "Forward failed" even though
the trap was successfully forwarded. This update fixes snmptrapd checks
and the aforementioned message is now logged only when appropriate.
* Previously, snmpd ignored the value of the "storageUseNFS" option in the
/etc/snmpd/snmpd.conf file. As a consequence, NFS drivers were shown as
"Network Disks", even though "storageUseNFS" was set to "2" to report them
as "Fixed Disks" in HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageTable. With this update,
snmpd takes the "storageUseNFS" option value into account, and "Fixed
Disks" NFS drives are reported correctly.
* Previously, the Net-SNMP python binding used an incorrect size (8 bytes
instead of 4) for variables of IPADDRESS type. Consequently, applications
that were using Net-SNMP Python bindings could send malformed SNMP
messages. With this update, the bindings now use 4 bytes for variables
with IPADRESS type, and only valid SNMP messages are sent.
* Previously, the snmpd service did not cut values in HOST-RESOURCES-
MIB::hrStorageTable to signed 32-bit integers, as required by SNMP
standards, and provided the values as unsigned integers. As a consequence,
the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageTable implementation did not conform to
RFC 2790. The values are now cut to 32-bit signed integers, and snmpd is
therefore standard compliant.
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SL6
x86_64
net-snmp-5.5-54.el6.x86_64.rpm
net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-54.el6.i686.rpm
net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-54.el6.x86_64.rpm
net-snmp-libs-5.5-54.el6.i686.rpm
net-snmp-libs-5.5-54.el6.x86_64.rpm
net-snmp-devel-5.5-54.el6.i686.rpm
net-snmp-devel-5.5-54.el6.x86_64.rpm
net-snmp-perl-5.5-54.el6.x86_64.rpm
net-snmp-python-5.5-54.el6.x86_64.rpm
net-snmp-utils-5.5-54.el6.x86_64.rpm
i386
net-snmp-5.5-54.el6.i686.rpm
net-snmp-debuginfo-5.5-54.el6.i686.rpm
net-snmp-libs-5.5-54.el6.i686.rpm
net-snmp-devel-5.5-54.el6.i686.rpm
net-snmp-perl-5.5-54.el6.i686.rpm
net-snmp-python-5.5-54.el6.i686.rpm
net-snmp-utils-5.5-54.el6.i686.rpm
- Scientific Linux Development Team
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