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

2020-08-01 Thread Axel Uhl
Same here. snmpd broke over night, now my mrtg which is reporting, e.g., disk temperatures using a smartctl-based cannot be reported anymore, and I was wondering why this cron job now keeps flooding my inbox... All intranet, all very inconvenient. As others mentioned, a warning would have been

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

2020-07-31 Thread James Greig
Hi, Though I do appreciate that security should come above everything. I have to agree with everyone else here it seems surprising that it has just been removed like this. We use it in read-only ourselves as well and it has broken a lot of monitoring. Kind regards James Greig From: Craig

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

2020-07-30 Thread Albertas Sileika
Hi, It is not acceptable to remove feature without possibility to enable it again. This update breaks part of our monitoring system. Albertas On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:46:29 +1000 Craig Small wrote: > Hi James, > That would have been intentional, the EXTEND MIB has major security > issues. > > -

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

2020-07-30 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello Craig, These issues, do they warrant utterly breaking things w/o any recourse short of recompiling things for many, many users that use the extend feature? Especially given the fact that SNMP traffic tends to be on private networks and the feature not being enabled by default in the

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

2020-07-30 Thread 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 wrote: > Package: snmpd > Version: 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these