Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Net-SNMP 5.3 released, update the Win32 packages?

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:23:49 +1100
Jaap Keuter wrote:
> Hi Ulf,
> 
> What does the changelog say?

More relevent is the announce for 5.3.0.1

> In version 5.3 much of the authorization control was rewritten.  There
> was a bug in the new code that resulted in granting write access to
> read-only users or communities which were configured using the
> "rocommunity" or "rouser" snmpd.conf tokens.  5.3.0.1 fixes this
> problem.  Only 5.3 was affected by this problem.  Users are encouraged
> to immediately update their installations if they use either of these
> tokens.  A big thanks is owed to Robert Story who found the bug and
> quickly fixed it.

which isn't really relevent to Ethereal, but it's still probably worth
doing for consistency.

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