[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#684388: agentx: Oversized Object ID

[Simon Paillard]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 02:43:34PM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:32:37PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> > AgentX support is ineffective when a manager requests unrelated OID in
> > the same GET request. snmpd will send those unrelated variables into
> > the same PDU to the subagent and the subagent will choke with:
> > 
> > agentx: Oversized Object ID
> [..]
> > First three OID contain 11 subid while the next one has 12
> > subid. snmpd will try several time to communicate those OID to the
> > subagent and will give up. A manager requesting always the same OID
> > will never get an answer.
[..]
> As the bugfix is already present in testing, would you consider an upload to
> stable-proposed-updates ?
> http://sources.debian.net/src/net-snmp/5.7.2~dfsg-8.1/agent/mibgroup/agentx/protocol.c#L1774

NMU debdiff attached.

I don't know if security team want this to be fixed via security updates
(FTR Redhat considers this bug not grave,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074631#c3)

-- 
Simon Paillard
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