CERT security advisory (CA-2002-03) and the Compaq Advisory (SSRT0779U)
describes a potential security vulnerability, where under certain
circumstances, SNMP services may stop functioning.

While there is no known risk of compromising Tru64 UNIX system security
with SNMP (system instability or unauthorized access), the SNMP agent
provided with Tru64 UNIX is susceptible to a limited problem - the SNMP
agent may suffer a segmentation fault, generate a core file and exit,
thus denying SNMP service to SNMP-based network management applications.

Compaq has corrected the potential security vulnerability with this patch.



