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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200901-15">
+ <title>Net-SNMP: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A vulnerability in Net-SNMP could lead to a Denial of Service.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">net-snmp</product>
+ <announced>2009-01-21</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2009-01-21</revised>
+ <bug>245306</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-analyzer/net-snmp" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">5.4.2.1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">5.4.2.1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Net-SNMP is a collection of tools for generating and retrieving SNMP
+ data.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Oscar Mira-Sanchez reported an integer overflow in the
+ netsnmp_create_subtree_cache() function in agent/snmp_agent.c when
+ processing GETBULK requests.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to crash the
+ SNMP server. NOTE: The attacker needs to know the community string to
+ exploit this vulnerability.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ Restrict access to trusted entities only.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Net-SNMP users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-analyzer/net-snmp-5.4.2.1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4309">CVE-2008-4309</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-01-11T17:57:13Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-01-12T22:12:01Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-01-12T22:12:09Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>