Bug 447262 (CVE-2008-2292)

Summary: CVE-2008-2292 net-snmp: buffer overflow in perl module's Perl Module __snprint_value()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jsafrane, kreilly
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2292
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Bug Depends On: 449894, 449895, 449896, 449897, 449898, 449899    
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Nico's patch for both Perl and Python modules issues none

Description Tomas Hoger 2008-05-19 07:06:50 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-2292 to the following vulnerability:

Buffer overflow in the __snprint_value function in snmp_get in
Net-SNMP 5.1.4, 5.2.4, and 5.4.1, as used in SNMP.xs for Perl, allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly
execute arbitrary code via a large OCTETSTRING in an attribute value
pair (AVP).

Upstream bug report:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1826174&group_id=12694&atid=112694

Upstream patch:
http://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/net-snmp?view=rev&sortby=date&revision=16770

Fixed upstream in: 5.4.2.pre1.

Other references:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30187
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42430
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1528
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29212
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-05-26 13:30:00 UTC 
According to Nico Golde's posting to oss-security, same issue affects python
module (affected file - python/netsnmp/client_intf.c):

  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/24/1
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2008-05-26 13:30:48 UTC 
Created attachment 306675 [details]
Nico's patch for both Perl and Python modules issues
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2008-05-27 08:28:15 UTC 
net-snmp packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora do not ship python
net-snmp bindings, only perl bindings.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-06-11 04:39:22 UTC 
net-snmp-5.4.1-18.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-06-11 04:39:32 UTC 
net-snmp-5.4.1-7.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-06-11 04:39:50 UTC 
net-snmp-5.4-18.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 10 Red Hat Product Security 2008-11-13 15:41:24 UTC 
This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0529.html

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-5218
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-5215