Patches: SNMP vulnerability

As we reported earlier this week, a major flaw has been discovered in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) used for managing just about everything connected to an IP network. The vulnerability could be exploited in a denial-of-service attack or by a malicious user looking to gain access to certain systems. Vendors are quickly turning around patches to protect against this problem. For vendor patches go to:

Sun Microsystems:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatchMicrosoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-006.aspFreeBSD:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:11.snmp.ascRed Hat:

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-163.htmlCaldera UnixWare/OpenUnix:

ftp://stage.caldera.com/pub/security/openunix/CSSA-2002-SCO.4/