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List:       net-snmp-announce
Subject:    Net-SNMP 5.2.6 release available
From:       Dave Shield <D.T.Shield () liverpool ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2010-06-03 15:52:55
Message-ID: AANLkTimbiG4Av7uBb51Cmp3ftmylDpou0AlGsBeFYLcD () mail ! gmail ! com
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A new release of the 5.2.x Net-SNMP package is
now available from the SourceForge download servers.
This is mostly bug fixes over the previous release.

The most significant changes over 5.2.5 are improved
support for building on Linux and Windows systems,
and support for monitoring large disks (>2Tb).
This release also includes the fix for CVE-2008-4309
(which was previously made available as the security release 5.2.5.1)

A fuller list of the significant changes and relevant tracker
entries for this release is attached.

The 5.2.6 release is envisaged as being the final version
on the 5.2.x line.   No further development is planned on
this branch.

Download URL:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp/files/net-snmp/5.2.6/

["526-CHANGES.txt" (text/plain)]

This file contains a list of specific bugs that have been fixed, and patches
that have been applied in released versions.  Please see the NEWS file for
a summary of the major changes, and the ChangeLog file for a comprehensive
listing of all changes made to the code.

*5.2.6*

    snmplib:
      - [BUG 2027834]: Extend string print buffer by the minimum necessary
      - [BUG 2217367]: Fix a memory leak (backport of Patch 1616912)
      - [BUG 2838243]: Correct the output of unsigned values
      - [BUG 2919320]: Avoid accessing freed memory
      - [BUG 2922390]: Fix test for missing contextName parameter
      - [PATCH 2003450]: Fix a couple of 64-bit problems
      - [PATCH 2043018]: Fix recvfrom hangs
      - [PATCH 2258229]: Remove misleading comment
      - [PATCH 2479700]: Fix zoned IP address used as table indices
      - [PATCH 2505488]: Fix alarm behaviour on large clock skews
      - [PATCH 2538169]: Prevent infinite retries for invalid error-index
      - [PATCH 2689362]: Fix handling of IPv6 hostnames
      - [PATCH 2713841]: Fix runtime errors triggered by high-ASCII chars
      - [PATCH 2952034]: Return of the Great SuSE 'sprintf' Hunt
      - [PATCH 2952140]: Fix overflow counter32/gauge32 on 64-bit systems
      - Change the parsing of ranges to accept all valid values
      - Ensure O_CREATE mask is always specified
      - Fix agent crash when sending encrypted SNMPv3 traps
      - Make -LN stop dumping core.
      - Make bad debug levels report the offending symbol

    snmpd:
      - [BUG 1693039]: Be silent when insert fails
      - [BUG 2003144]: Increase size of AgentX packet build buffer
      - [BUG 2023803]: Remove irrelevant configure dependency (HP-UX 11)
      - [BUG 2822360]: Fix memory leak when building table OIDs
      - [BUG 2841008]: Protect against crash following failed AgentX response
      - [BUG 2894059]: Handle errors when counting interfaces
      - [BUG 2914410]: Fix crash on empty command lines
      - [PATCH 1550730]: Report errors from iterator-based handlers
      - [PATCH 1944581]: Don't core dump on long string index values
      - [PATCH 1977439]: Fix pass/_persist bug with SET oid value
      - [PATCH 2014204]: Support -g {groupname}
      - [PATCH 2022936]: Fix AgentX Counter64 decoding on 64-bit architectures
      - [PATCH 2082726]: correctly report NIC speeds higher than 4Gbit/s
      - [PATCH 2124288]: Fix setting of usmUserPrivProtocol at creation
      - [PATCH 2384779]: Fix handling of GetBulk with N>0,M==0
      - [PATCH 2693670]: Don't open AgentX sockets if other transports fail
      - [PATCH 2877518]: Fix handling of scoped AgentX variables
      - [PATCH 2883155]: Fix memory leak in proxy handling.
      - [PATCH 2887816]: Protect against division-by-zero crash
      - [PATCH 2912584]: Fix null OID handling in Agentx on 64bit
      - [PATCH 2950845]: Fix ifHighSpeed calculation
      - [PATCH 2952034]: Return of the Great SuSE 'sprintf' Hunt
      - [PATCH 2956657]: Handle over-length AgentX OIDs
      - [PATCH 2968642]: Catch overflow of pass-through command buffer
      - Ensure O_CREATE mask is always specified
      - Fix CVE-2008-4309 (GETBULK issue reported by Oscar Mira-Sanchez)
      - Fix handling of multiple matching VACM entries.
      - Fix memory leak when multiple interfaces have the same IPv6 address
      - Fix possible crash when 64-bit counters exceed 2^32
      - Fix two bugs with smux password support.
      - Improve parsing of -LS command line argument
      - Latch large-disk statistics at 2Tb (rather than wrapping)
      - Support large HW addresses (>6bytes)

    snmptrapd:
      - Remove glibc-specific printf-formatting tokens

    apps:
      - [BUG 1964136]: Drop NULL type from snmpset usage
      - [BUG 2811577]: Fix bug in GetBulk handling
      - [PATCH 2937996]: Add Date: header to email send by traptoemail
      - Improve parsing of -LS command line argument

    snmptable:
      - [BUG 2837998]: Handle missing instance subidentifiers in results
      - [PATCH 2850067]: Suppress extraneous "index" header token

    build:
      - [BUG 2023803]: Compilation problems on HP-UX 11.31
      - [BUG 2782700]: build failure when using --with-pkcs on Solaris
      - [PATCH 1681035]: improve net-snmp-config /bin/sh compatibility
      - [PATCH 1899762]: Tweak embedded_perl configure checks
      - [PATCH 2184039]: Misc fixes for freeing memory
      - [PATCH 2952020]: Set permission on testing directories
      - add --with-temp-file-pattern configure option
      - Fix 'make test TESTOPTS="-P tcp"'
      - Limit the use of _KERNEL definitions in configure

    documentation:
      - [BUG 2027129]: fix typo in snmpcmd.1

    mib2c:
      - [BUG 2827269]: Suppress non-ordered TODO comments
      - [BUG 2888569]: Fix generation of table columns array
      - [PATCH 2316127]: Fix bug in iterate_access generated code

    mibs:
      - [BUG 2973890]: Fix imports, DiskIOEntry list and revision histories

    perl:
      - [BUG 1554817]: Fix class assigment so getRootOID works properly
      - [PATCH 2021444]: Support SNMPv2c in gettable
      - [PATCH 2022948]: Fix for Counter64 in perl subagent
      - [PATCH 2890931]: Better handling of Counter64 values

    AIX:
      - [BUG 2712670]: Agent crashes on AIX with hrStorage

    *BSD:
      - Fix a make test

    HP-UX:
      - [BUG 2779472]: Filesystems missing in hrStorage

    Linux:
      - [PATCH 2926374]: Fix /proc/net/if_inet6 reading of ipAddressTable
      - fix rare race condition when reading RPM database
      - Fix build on modern distributions (using rpm-4.6)

    Solaris:
      - [PATCH 2012404]: deal with more than 10 interfaces
      - [PATCH 2751588]: Fix inconsistent/zero data being reported
      - Protect against missing package version

    Win32:
      - [PATCH 2688342]: Fix various VS2005 compiler warnings
      - [BUG 2997492]: byte order of udpLocalPort is now correct.
      - Detect free UDP ports correctly for use in Cygwin test infrastructure.
      - Fix batch build using recent versions of Visual Studio.
      - Fix build under MinGW




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