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Ubuntu update for net-snmp


Secunia ID

SA49279

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-2141

Release Date

24 May 2012

Criticality

Less Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From local network

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

Ubuntu has issued an update for net-snmp. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA48938

Solution

Apply updated packages.

-- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-snmp/5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.1

-- Ubuntu 11.10 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-snmp/5.4.3~dfsg-2.2ubuntu1.1

-- Ubuntu 11.04 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-snmp/5.4.3~dfsg-2ubuntu1.1

-- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-snmp/5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.2

-- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-snmp/5.4.1~dfsg-4ubuntu4.4

Original Advisory

USN-1450-1:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1450-1