USN-2711-1 Net-SNMP Vulnerabilities

Low to Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• libsnmp30 5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.1

Description

Net-SNMP could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic. It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled certain trap messages when the -OQ option was used. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Net-SNMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3565)

Qinghao Tang discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled SNMP PDU parsing failures. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Net-SNMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-5621)

Affected Products and Versions

_Severity is low unless otherwise noted.
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• Cloud Foundry Runtime: all versions of cf-release prior to 219 are vulnerable to the aforementioned CVEs.
• PHP Buildpack v1.4.1 and earlier are vulnerable.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

• The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry Deployments using cf-release 218 or lower upgrade to 219 or higher to resolve the aforementioned CVEs.

Credit

Unknown

References

• <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2711-1/&gt;
• <https://bosh.io/stemcells&gt;
• <https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release&gt;