MGASA-2014-0122

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    MGASA-2014-0122

    Published: 7 Mar 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated net-snmp packages fix two vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated net-snmp packages fix security vulnerabilities: Remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability in Net-SNMP, in the Linux implementation of the ICMP-MIB, making the SNMP agent vulnerable if it is making use of the ICMP-MIB table objects (CVE-2014-2284). Remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability in Net-SNMP, in snmptrapd, due to how it handles trap requests with an empty community string when the perl handler is enabled (CVE-2014-2285).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0122.html, http://freecode.com/projects/net-snmp/releases/361848, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/05/9, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1070396, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072778, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12880

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: net-snmp

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/net-snmp?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.7.2-7.2.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High