[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#483588: example?

[Peter Hicks]

Hi Thomas

Thomas Anders wrote:

> Peter Hicks wrote:
>> Bug #482333 addresses CVE-2008-2292, a buffer overflow in __snprint_value. 
>> However, this also breaks the perl module, which returns garbage for any
>> OCTETSTRs passed back.
> 
> Can you present a minimal self-contained example?

Sure, it's attached.  It shows the correct strings being returned from the 
'get' call, but the corrupt output from snmpget.

I've had this on three systems I've upgraded to 5.4.1~dfsg-7.1 so far, and the 
problem went away when I removed the specific offending patch from the source 
and rebuilt.


Peter

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