[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: net-snmp-5.7.2-23.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-9982
2014-09-01 19:31:20
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Name        : net-snmp
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 5.7.2
Release     : 23.fc21
URL         : http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : A collection of SNMP protocol tools and libraries
Description :
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for
network management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools:
an extensible agent, an SNMP library, 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
mib browser. This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons,
documentation, etc.

You will probably also want to install the net-snmp-utils package,
which contains NET-SNMP utilities.

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Update Information:

Update package fixes following bugs:
* CVE-2014-3565 net-snmp: snmptrapd crash when handling an SNMP trap containing a ifMtu with a NULL type
* net-snmp-cert now works without net-snmp-devel package installed
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1125155 - CVE-2014-3565 net-snmp: snmptrapd crash when handling an SNMP trap containing a ifMtu with a NULL type
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125155
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update net-snmp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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