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08 Sep 2009 Sun Alert 262908 Security Vulnerability in the SNMP daemon (snmpd(1M)) May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) Condition
posted by chandan in Alerts

Product: Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolaris

A heap-based buffer overflow security vulnerability in the System Management Agent (SMA) SNMP daemon (snmpd(1M)) that ships with Solaris may allow a local or remote unprivileged user to crash the snmpd daemon via a specially crafted SNMP GETBULK request. This is a type of Denial of Service (DoS).

The issue is as described in the following documents:

CVE-2008-4309 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4309
CVE-2009-1887 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1887

State: Resolved

First released: 08-Jul-2009

Sun Alert Link: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-262908-1

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