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SUSE: CVE-2020-15862: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2020-15862: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/20/2020
Created
12/31/2021
Added
12/28/2021
Modified
03/22/2022

Description

Net-SNMP through 5.7.3 has Improper Privilege Management because SNMP WRITE access to the EXTEND MIB provides the ability to run arbitrary commands as root.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libsnmp30
  • suse-upgrade-libsnmp30-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-net-snmp
  • suse-upgrade-net-snmp-devel
  • suse-upgrade-net-snmp-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-perl-snmp
  • suse-upgrade-python2-net-snmp
  • suse-upgrade-python3-net-snmp
  • suse-upgrade-snmp-mibs

References

  • SUSE-SU-2021:4191-1
  • SUSE-SU-2022:0030-1
  • SUSE-SU-2022:0050-1
  • SUSE-SU-2022:0050-2
  • USN-4471-1
  • USN-4471-2
  • CVE-2020-15862
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