Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1582
Advisory Release Date: 2021-01-05 23:34 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-01-06 20:38 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2020-15862)
Affected Packages:
net-snmp
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update net-snmp to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
net-snmp-utils-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
net-snmp-gui-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
net-snmp-agent-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
net-snmp-python-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
net-snmp-sysvinit-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
net-snmp-debuginfo-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.aarch64
i686:
net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
net-snmp-utils-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
net-snmp-gui-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
net-snmp-agent-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
net-snmp-python-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
net-snmp-sysvinit-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
net-snmp-debuginfo-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.i686
src:
net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.src
x86_64:
net-snmp-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
net-snmp-utils-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
net-snmp-gui-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
net-snmp-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
net-snmp-agent-libs-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
net-snmp-python-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
net-snmp-sysvinit-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64
net-snmp-debuginfo-5.7.2-49.amzn2.1.x86_64