[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#966544: Bug#966544: snmpd: extend option broken after update

[Craig Small]

Hi James,
  That would have been intentional, the EXTEND MIB has major security
issues.

 - Craig


On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 23:03, James Greig <james at host-it.co.uk> wrote:

> Package: snmpd
> Version: 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate
> ***
>
> Updating snmpd from deb9u1 to deb9u2 via apt on any stretch system
> breaks the ability to use 'extend' in snmpd.
>
> After updating on any stretch system and restarting snmpd this error will
> appear:-
>
> Warning: Unknown token: extend
>
> It's likely the latest binary build of this package has not included
> options to
> enable extend and/or other extras.
>
> *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.13
>   APT prefers oldstable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages snmpd depends on:
> ii  adduser                3.115
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.61
> ii  init-system-helpers    1.48
> ii  libc6                  2.24-11+deb9u4
> ii  libsnmp-base           5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u2
> ii  libsnmp30              5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u2
> ii  lsb-base               9.20161125
>
> snmpd recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages snmpd suggests:
> pn  snmptrapd  <none>
>
> -- debconf information excluded
>
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