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High ALAS2-2021-1582 1 CVE

Important: net-snmp security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jan 5, 2021 · Updated Jan 6, 2021

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-15862: A flaw was found in Net-SNMP through version 5.73, where an Improper Privilege Management issue occurs due to SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB allows running arbitrary commands as root. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability. 1873038: CVE-2020-15862 net-snmp: Improper Privilege Management in EXTEND MIB may lead to privileged commands execution

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 net-snmp 1:5.7.2-49.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 net-snmp-agent-libs 1:5.7.2-49.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 net-snmp-debuginfo 1:5.7.2-49.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 net-snmp-devel 1:5.7.2-49.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 net-snmp-gui 1:5.7.2-49.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 net-snmp-libs 1:5.7.2-49.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 net-snmp-perl 1:5.7.2-49.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 net-snmp-python 1:5.7.2-49.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 net-snmp-sysvinit 1:5.7.2-49.amzn2.1
Amazon Linux · 2 net-snmp-utils 1:5.7.2-49.amzn2.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-15862.html