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Bug 79028

Summary: SEGV in Net-SNMP
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <mws>
Component: net-snmpAssignee: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
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Version: 8.0CC: mitr, mjc, rvokal
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Description Need Real Name 2002-12-04 18:01:07 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021127

Description of problem:
There is an off-by-one error in the SNMP agent's source code. Anyone who can
make a GET request to the server can crash it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.0.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

Actual Results:  N/A

Expected Results:  N/A

Additional info:

Around agent/snmpd_agent.c:1490 where the agent grows its cache, it memsets all
but the last element in the expanded array to 0x00.

To fix it, change line 1490 from
    sizeof(netsnmp_tree_cache) * (CACHE_GROW_SIZE - 1));
to
    sizeof(netsnmp_tree_cache) * CACHE_GROW_SIZE );

This problem is also present in Net-SNMP 5.0.6, although the line moved down
around 1581.

Contact me if you need a demonstration program that can reliably crash snmpd.

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2002-12-05 08:09:48 UTC
Is this a known public issue (has it been reported to Net-SNMP folks)?  Any
references or details about how this was reported and when would help us with
any erratum.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-12-05 15:33:24 UTC
I added it to the Net-SNMP bug tracker yesterday. It's number is 648515. Wes
Hardaker says a fix was already in the CVS tree and it will be in the
forthcoming 5.0.7 release.

Here's a link to the Sourceforge bug:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=112694&aid=648515&group_id=12694

Comment 3 Alan Cox 2002-12-18 18:42:24 UTC
Mark is this fixed in the latest snmp we pushed if so can you close it

Alan the bugzilla womble


Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2002-12-19 09:00:31 UTC
Yes, fixed by erratum
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-228.html

(This bug should have got automatically updated when the erratum was pushed,
will look into this as a process problem).