Important: net-snmp

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in Net-SNMP through version 5.73, where an Improper Privilege Management issue occurs due to SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB allows running arbitrary commands as root. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. (CVE-2020-15862)

Affected Packages:

net-snmp

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update net-snmp to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    net-snmp-utils-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    net-snmp-gui-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    net-snmp-agent-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    net-snmp-python-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    net-snmp-sysvinit-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64  
    net-snmp-debuginfo-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686  
    net-snmp-utils-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686  
    net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686  
    net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686  
    net-snmp-gui-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686  
    net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686  
    net-snmp-agent-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686  
    net-snmp-python-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686  
    net-snmp-sysvinit-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686  
    net-snmp-debuginfo-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686  
  
src:  
    net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-utils-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-gui-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-agent-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-python-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-sysvinit-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64  
    net-snmp-debuginfo-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-15862

Mitre: CVE-2020-15862