RHSA-2009:0295: Moderate: net-snmp security update

First published: Thu Mar 26 2009(Updated: )

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol used for<br>network management.<br>It was discovered that the snmpd daemon did not use TCP wrappers correctly,<br>causing network hosts access restrictions defined in "/etc/hosts.allow" and<br>"/etc/hosts.deny" to not be honored. A remote attacker could use this flaw<br>to bypass intended access restrictions. (CVE-2008-6123)<br>This issue only affected configurations where hosts.allow and hosts.deny<br>were used to limit access to the SNMP server. To obtain information from<br>the server, the attacker would have to successfully authenticate, usually<br>by providing a correct community string.<br>All net-snmp users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain<br>a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, the<br>snmpd and snmptrapd daemons will be restarted automatically.

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