| Name | CVE-2008-0960 |
| Description | SNMPv3 HMAC verification in (1) Net-SNMP 5.2.x before 5.2.4.1, 5.3.x before 5.3.2.1, and 5.4.x before 5.4.1.1; (2) UCD-SNMP; (3) eCos; (4) Juniper Session and Resource Control (SRC) C-series 1.0.0 through 2.0.0; (5) NetApp (aka Network Appliance) Data ONTAP 7.3RC1 and 7.3RC2; (6) SNMP Research before 16.2; (7) multiple Cisco IOS, CatOS, ACE, and Nexus products; (8) Ingate Firewall 3.1.0 and later and SIParator 3.1.0 and later; (9) HP OpenView SNMP Emanate Master Agent 15.x; and possibly other products relies on the client to specify the HMAC length, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass SNMP authentication via a length value of 1, which only checks the first byte. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1663-1, DTSA-137-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 485945 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| net-snmp (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 5.9+dfsg-4+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.9.3+dfsg-2 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 5.9.4+dfsg-1.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| net-snmp | source | etch | 5.2.3-7etch4 | DSA-1663-1 | ||
| net-snmp | source | lenny | 5.4.1~dfsg-7.1+lenny1 | DTSA-137-1 | ||
| net-snmp | source | (unstable) | 5.4.1~dfsg-8.1 | medium | 485945 |