net-snmp crashes on walking

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1

Situation

When configuring net-snmp-5.3.0.1-25.22 to proxy, only snmpget works; snmpwalk or snmpgetnext make the SNMP daemon snmpd crash.

Resolution

Please update to version 5.3.0.1-25.25 of net-snmp via online update.

Additional Information

How to reproduce: use the following settings in /etc/snmpd.conf:

proxy -v 2c -c public 127.0.0.1:1161 1.2.3.4.1

accessing snmpd through

snmpwalk -v 2c -c public 127.0.0.1:161 .1.2.3.4.1

returns:

iso.2.3.4.1.1 = INTEGER: 44
iso.2.3.4.1.2 = Gauge32: 141681680
iso.2.3.4.1.3 = Gauge32: 2863333376
iso.2.3.4.1.4 = INTEGER: 0
Timeout: No Response from 127.0.0.1:161

Checking the status of snmpd afterwards shows the snmpd process died:

rcsnmpd status
Checking for service snmpd: dead

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