USN-5795-2: Net-SNMP vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Description

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. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5795-2` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: snmptrapd - 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm1 libsnmp30 - 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm1 libsnmp-dev - 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm1 libsnmp-base - 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm1 snmp - 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm1 libsnmp-perl - 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm1 tkmib - 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm1 snmpd - 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm1 python-netsnmp - 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-24805, CVE-2022-24806, CVE-2022-24807, CVE-2022-24808, CVE-2022-24809, CVE-2022-24810, CVE-2022-44792, CVE-2022-44793

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
- All versions prior to 1.4.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:

Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
- 1.4.0

References

History

2023-04-13: Initial vulnerability report published.