Recommended update for net-snmp

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2024:0021-2
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

An update that contains one feature and has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for net-snmp fixes the following issues:

Update to net-snmp-5.9.4 (bsc#1214364).

  • libsnmp:

    • Remove the SNMP_SWIPE_MEM() macro Remove this macro since it is not used in the Net-SNMP code base.
    • DISPLAY-HINT fixes
    • Miscellanious improvements to the transports
    • Handle multiple oldEngineID configuration lines
    • fixes for DNS names longer than 63 characters

  • agent:

    • Added a ignoremount configuration option for the HOST-MIB
    • disallow SETs with a NULL varbind
    • fix the --enable-minimalist build

  • apps:

    • snmpset: allow SET with NULL varbind for testing
    • snmptrapd: improved MySQL logging code

  • general:

    • configure: Remove -Wno-deprecated as it is no longer needed
    • miscellanious ther bug fixes, build fixes and cleanups

  • Re-add support for hostname netgroups that was removed accidentally and previously added with FATE#316305 (bsc#1207697). '@hostgroup' can be specified for multiple hosts

  • Hardening systemd services setting "ProtectHome=true" caused home directory size and allocation to be listed incorrectly (bsc#1206044).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2024-21=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • net-snmp-debugsource-5.9.4-150300.15.11.1
    • snmp-mibs-5.9.4-150300.15.11.1
    • libsnmp40-5.9.4-150300.15.11.1
    • libsnmp40-debuginfo-5.9.4-150300.15.11.1
    • net-snmp-debuginfo-5.9.4-150300.15.11.1

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