RHSA-2020:5480 — Security Advisory

An update for net-snmp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The net-snmp packages provide various libraries and tools for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), including an SNMP library, an extensible agent, 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 Management Information Base (MIB) browser.

Security Fix(es):

• net-snmp: Improper Privilege Management in EXTEND MIB may lead to privileged commands execution (CVE-2020-15862)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• In RHEL 8, snmpd using v3 is unable to send out default 60 maxGetbulkResponses when invalid PID specified. (BZ#1896760)

• AVC denied for snmpd / snmptrapd (BZ#1902662)