[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: net-snmp-5.4.1-7.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-5218
2008-06-11 02:00:36
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Name        : net-snmp
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 5.4.1
Release     : 7.fc8
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.

Building option:
	--without tcp_wrappers : disable tcp_wrappers support

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 10 2008 Jan Safranek <jsafranek at redhat.com> 5.4.1-7
- fix various flaws (CVE-2008-2292 CVE-2008-0960)
* Thu Feb 14 2008 Jan Safranek <jsafranek at redhat.com> 5.4.1-6
- fixing ipNetToMediaNetAddress to show IP address (#432780)
* Thu Nov 15 2007 Jan Safranek <jsafranek at redhat.com> 5.4.1-5
- added procps to build dependencies (#380321)
- fix crash on reading xen interfaces (#386611)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #447974 - CVE-2008-0960 net-snmp SNMPv3 authentication bypass (VU#877044)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447974
  [ 2 ] Bug #447262 - CVE-2008-2292 net-snmp: buffer overflow in perl module's Perl Module __snprint_value()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447262
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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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