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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6305

Original release date:12/06/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in Net-SNMP 5.3 before 5.3.0.1, when configured using the rocommunity or rouser snmpd.conf tokens, causes Net-SNMP to gran write access to users or communities that only have read-only access.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:7.5 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of net-smtp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=531399
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=531399
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/about/news.html
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/about/news.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/about/ChangeLog.html
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/about/ChangeLog.html
External Source: XF
Name: netsnmp-rocommunity-rouser-bypass-security(30782)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30782
External Source: BID
Name: 21503
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21503
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017355
Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017355
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23285
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23285

Vulnerable software and versions

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Technical Details

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CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6305