SUSE-RU-2025:20169-1: moderate: Recommended update for net-snmp

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# Recommended update for net-snmp

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2025:20169-1  
Release Date: 2025-03-31T15:50:37Z  
Rating: moderate  
References:

  * bsc#1206044
  * bsc#1207697
  * bsc#1214364
  * bsc#1232030

  
Affected Products:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0

  
  
An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for net-snmp fixes the following issues:

  * Version update to 5.9.4 (bsc#1214364):

  * IMPORTANT: SNMP over TLS and/or DTLS are not functioning properly in this
    release with various versions of OpenSSL and will be fixed in a future
    release.

  * libsnmp:

    * Removed the unused SNMP_SWIPE_MEM() macro 
    * Fixed issues with DISPLAY-HINT
    * Miscellanious improvements to the transports
    * Handle multiple oldEngineID configuration lines 
    * Fixed issues with DNS names longer than 63 characters
  * agent:

    * Added a ignoremount configuration option for the HOST-MIB
    * Disallow SETs with a NULL varbind
    * Fixed the --enable-minimalist build
  * apps:

    * snmpset: allow SET with NULL varbind for testing
    * snmptrapd: improved MySQL logging code
  * general:

    * configure: removed `-Wno-deprecated` as it is no longer needed
    * miscellanious bug fixes
  * Other issues fixed:

  * Removed legacy MIBs used by Velocity Software (jira#PED-6416)

  * Re-add support for hostname netgroups (bsc#1207697)
  * Fixed Systemd services setting "ProtectHome=true" that caused home directory
    size and allocation to be listed incorrectly (bsc#1206044)
  * Ensure logrotate reloads the configuration instead of restarting the service
    to prevent downtime (bsc#1232030)

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".  
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-264=1

## Package List:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
    * libsnmp40-5.9.4-1.1
    * snmp-mibs-5.9.4-1.1
    * libsnmp40-debuginfo-5.9.4-1.1
    * net-snmp-debugsource-5.9.4-1.1

## References:

  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206044
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207697
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214364
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232030

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