USN-5795-2

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    USN-5795-2

    Published: 16 Jan 2023Last Modified: 29 Jun 2026

    Summary: net-snmp vulnerabilities

    Details: USN-5795-1 and 5543-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Net-SNMP. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled certain requests. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause Net-SNMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Yu Zhang and Nanyu Zhong discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled memory operations when processing certain requests. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Net-SNMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: net-snmp

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/net-snmp?arch=source&distro=trusty%2Fesm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.3+esm3

    Affected versions

    5.7.2~dfsg-8ubuntu1
    5.7.2~dfsg-8ubuntu2
    5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu1
    5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu2
    5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3
    5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.1
    5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.2
    5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.3
    5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.3+esm1
    5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.3+esm2

    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
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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