Use After Free Affecting net-snmp-devel package, versions <1:5.8-12.el8_1.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.32% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-NETSNMPDEVEL-3401374
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Jan 2020

Introduced: 2 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-20892  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 net-snmp-devel to version 1:5.8-12.el8_1.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHBA-2020:1376.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream net-snmp-devel package and not the net-snmp-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

net-snmp before 5.8.1.pre1 has a double free in usm_free_usmStateReference in snmplib/snmpusm.c via an SNMPv3 GetBulk request. NOTE: this affects net-snmp packages shipped to end users by multiple Linux distributions, but might not affect an upstream release.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1