Fedora 18 Update: net-snmp-5.7.2-5.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1050
2013-01-20 02:05:41
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Name        : net-snmp
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 5.7.2
Release     : 5.fc18
URL         : http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : A collection of SNMP protocol tools and libraries
Description :
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for
network management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools:
an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting
information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP
traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perl
mib browser. This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons,
documentation, etc.

You will probably also want to install the net-snmp-utils package,
which contains NET-SNMP utilities.

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Update Information:

This update fixed Python binding to correctly set length of IPADDRESS.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 17 2013 Jan Safranek <jsafrane at redhat.com> - 1:5.7.2-5
- Python: fixed IPADDRESS size on 64-bit systems (#895357)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #895357 - net-snmp-python adds zeros to end of IP address (IPADDR type), which is not valid
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895357
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update net-snmp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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