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Net-SNMP HMAC Authentication Spoofing Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA30574
Release Date: 2008-06-10
Last Update: 2008-06-11
Popularity: 5,391 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Net-snmp 5.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-0960


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Net-SNMP, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof authenticated SNMPv3 packets.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the verification of the HMAC digest. This can be exploited to increase the chance of successfully spoofing a packet to 1 in 256 by sending a specially crafted SNMPv3 packet with an incomplete 1 byte HMAC digest.

Successful exploitation requires a valid username.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 5.4.1.1 of the 5.4.x branch, 5.3.2.1 of the 5.3.x branch, and 5.2.4.1 of the 5.2.x branch.

Solution:
Update to version 5.4.1.1, 5.3.2.1, or 5.2.4.1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
US-CERT credits Wes Hardaker, Net-SNMP

Changelog:
2008-06-11: Updated "Credits" section with new information provided by US-CERT.

Original Advisory:
Net-SNMP:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=833770

US-CERT VU#878044:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/878044

Other References:
oCERT:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-006.html


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