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A net-snmp security update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux 8 Extended LTS to address a privilege escalation vulnerability.



ELA-252-1 net-snmp security update

Package net-snmp
Version 5.7.2.1+dfsg-1+deb8u3

A privilege escalation vulnerability vulnerability was discovered in Net-SNMP, a set of tools for collecting and organising information about devices on computer networks:

Upstream notes that:

It is still possible to enable this MIB via the --with-mib-modules configure option.

Another MIB that provides similar functionality, namely ucd-snmp/extensible, is disabled by default.

The security risk of ucd-snmp/pass and ucd-snmp/pass_persist is lower since these modules only introduce a security risk if the invoked scripts are exploitable.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 5.7.2.1+dfsg-1+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your net-snmp packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found at: https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/

  ELA-252-1 net-snmp security update