net-snmp-5.5-49.AXS4.1.0.1

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for network management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools: an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps and a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP. This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons, documentation, etc.

You will probably also want to install the net-snmp-utils package, which contains NET-SNMP utilities.

Security issues fixed with this release:

CVE-2014-2284
The Linux implementation of the ICMP-MIB in Net-SNMP 5.5 before 5.5.2.1, 5.6.x before 5.6.2.1, and 5.7.x before 5.7.2.1 does not properly validate input, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Fixed bugs:

• Introduced the new 'diskio' option in the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file: it is used to specify which devices should be monitored; then only those will be reported in the UCD-DISKIO-MIB::diskIOTable, which will greatly speed up snmpd on systems with numerous block devices.