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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in net-snmp affects IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System (CVE-2015-5621)

Description

## Summary The net-snmp packages provide various libraries and tools for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).One security vulnerability has been discovered in net-snmp used with IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System. ## Vulnerability Details **CVEID:** [_CVE-2015-5621_](<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2015-5621>)** DESCRIPTION:** Net-SNMP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by incompletely parsed varBind variables being left in the list of variables by the snmp_pdu_parse() function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code on the system. CVSS Base Score: 5.3 CVSS Temporal Score: See [_https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105232_](<https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105232>) for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L) ## Affected Products and Versions Products: GX3002, GX4002, GX4004, GX4004-v2, GX5008, GX5008-v2, GX5108, GX5108-v2, GX5208, GX5208-v2, GX6116, GX7412, GX7412-10, GX7412-05, GX7800, GV200, GV1000 Firmware versions 4.6.2, 4.6.1, 4.6, 4.5, 4.4, and 4.3 ## Remediation/Fixes _Product_ | _VRMF_| _Remediation/First Fix_ ---|---|--- IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.6.2| [_4.6.2.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0010_](<http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Security+Systems&product=ibm/Tivoli/Proventia+Network+Intrusion+Prevention+System&release=All&platform=All&function=all>) IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.6.1| [_4.6.1.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0014_](<http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Security+Systems&product=ibm/Tivoli/Proventia+Network+Intrusion+Prevention+System&release=All&platform=All&function=all>) IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.6| [_4.6.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0012_](<http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Security+Systems&product=ibm/Tivoli/Proventia+Network+Intrusion+Prevention+System&release=All&platform=All&function=all>) IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.5| [_4.5.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0014_](<http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Security+Systems&product=ibm/Tivoli/Proventia+Network+Intrusion+Prevention+System&release=All&platform=All&function=all>) IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.4| [_4.4.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0014_](<http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Security+Systems&product=ibm/Tivoli/Proventia+Network+Intrusion+Prevention+System&release=All&platform=All&function=all>) IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.3| [_4.3.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0012_](<http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Security+Systems&product=ibm/Tivoli/Proventia+Network+Intrusion+Prevention+System&release=All&platform=All&function=all>) ## Workarounds and Mitigations None ##


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
proventia network intrusion prevention system 4.3
proventia network intrusion prevention system 4.4
proventia network intrusion prevention system 4.5
proventia network intrusion prevention system 4.6
proventia network intrusion prevention system 4.6.1
proventia network intrusion prevention system 4.6.2

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