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net-snmp -- remote DoS vulnerability

Affected packages
		net-snmp	<	5.2.1.2

Details

VuXML ID	b2a1a3b5-ed95-11d9-8310-0001020eed82
Discovery	2005-07-02
Entry	2005-07-05
Modified	2005-10-26

A Net-SNMP release announcement reports:

A security vulnerability has been found in Net-SNMP releases that could allow a denial of service attack against Net-SNMP agent's which have opened a stream based protocol (EG, TCP but not UDP; it should be noted that Net-SNMP does not by default open a TCP port).

[source]

References

Bugtraq ID	14168
CVE Name	CVE-2005-2177
Message	sdzmt5sul0.fsf@wes.hardakers.net