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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Net-SNMP affects Netcool/OMNIbus SNMP Probe (CVE-2015-5621)

Created by John Lee on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/269733
269733

Security Bulletin


Summary

Netcool/OMNIbus SNMP Probe is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by Net-SNMP.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-5621

DESCRIPTION: Net-SNMP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by incompletely parsed varBind variables being left in the list of variables by the snmp_pdu_parse() function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105232 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Netcool/OMNIbus Integrations - SNMP Probe (nco-p-mttrapd-20_0) and earlier

Remediation/Fixes

Product

 VRMF APAR Remediation
Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1.0 IV76246
SNMP Probe (nco-p-mettrapd-20_2) or newer
Refer to release notice for the part number of the new package and instructions for the upgrade

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

3 January 2018: Original version published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Internal Use Only

Product Record ID: 61714
Product: IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus/Probes
Advisory ID: 3737
Advisory Title: Opensource Net-SNMP vulnerability
Product Record Owner: John Lee
Product Record Owner's email: johnstlee@my.ibm.com
Process ID: 103792

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 October 2022

UID

swg21969472

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