[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#572414: snmpd segfaults when snmpd.conf contains 'exec'

[sallen]

Package: snmpd
Version: 5.4.1~dfsg-12
Severity: normal


snmpd segfaults with the following message in syslog/messages:

kernel: [5038779.180228] snmpd[28728]: segfault at 1 ip f7e1f333 sp ff9b89b0 error 4 in libnetsnmpmibs.so.15.1.0[f7df0000+10c000]

This is apparently an issue that has affected others:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/netsnmp/+bug/489215
http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg26321.html

And online resources indicate that 5.5 has a patch to fix it. Any chance of a backport into a stable release of the snmpd package? I think this is a fairly serious bug, as I consider this to be a fairly core functionality of SNMP -- it hurts extensibility of the daemon to not be able to use exec without fear of segfault.

Thanks


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages snmpd depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.110         add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                    1.5.24        Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                      2.7-18lenny2  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libsnmp15                  5.4.1~dfsg-12 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii  libwrap0                   7.6.q-16      Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra

snmpd recommends no packages.

snmpd suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  snmpd/upgradefrom521: