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Conectiva update for ucd-snmp
Secunia Advisory: SA9277
Release Date: 2003-07-15
Last Update: 2003-11-05
Popularity: 6,879 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Conectiva Linux 7.0
Conectiva Linux 8

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CVE reference:CVE-2002-1570


Description:
Conectiva has issued updated packages for ucd-snmp. These fix an old vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the snmpnetstat tool when requesting a list of interfaces. This can be exploited to cause a heap overflow and may allow execution of arbitrary code on the user's system if a malicious SNMP service returns a specially crafted response.

Successful exploitation requires that a user requests a list of interfaces from a malicious SNMP service.

Solution:
Updated packages:

-- Conectiva Linux 7.0 --

ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/ucd-snmp-4.2.3-1U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7...cd-snmp-devel-4.2.3-1U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7...-devel-static-4.2.3-1U70_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7...cd-snmp-utils-4.2.3-1U70_2cl.i386.rpm

SRPM:
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/ucd-snmp-4.2.3-1U70_2cl.src.rpm


-- Conectiva Linux 8 --

ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/ucd-snmp-4.2.3-4U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8...cd-snmp-devel-4.2.3-4U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8...-devel-static-4.2.3-4U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8...cd-snmp-utils-4.2.3-4U80_1cl.i386.rpm

SRPM:
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/ucd-snmp-4.2.3-4U80_1cl.src.rpm

Provided and/or discovered by:
Axioma Security Research

Changelog:
2003-11-05: Added CVE reference.


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