RHSA-2015:1636MediumCVSS 6.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: net-snmp security update

Published
August 17, 2015
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

📋 Description

CVE-2015-5621 — net-snmp: snmp_pdu_parse() incompletely parsed varBinds left in list of variables CVE-2018-1000116 — net-snmp: Heap corruption in snmp_pdu_parse function in snmplib/snmp_api.c

🎯 Affected products200

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.5-54.el6_7.1.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • net-snmp-1:5.7.2-20.ael7b_1.1.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • net-snmp-1:5.7.2-20.ael7b_1.1.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • net-snmp-1:5.7.2-20.el7_1.1.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • +170 more not shown

✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (4)