Net-SNMP 5.8.pre3 available

Robert Story <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A pre-release version of the next major Net-SNMP release is now
available for testing. Net-SNMP 5.8.pre3 can be downloaded from:

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp/files/net-snmp/5.8-pre-releases/

Partial summary of changes since since 5.8.pre2:

*5.8.pre3*
    snmplib:
      - Asn1: BUG: 2828: from "Google Autofuzz project": fix off-by-one
	heap access for opaque types   (and an adjacent bug that was not in
	5.4, noticed by code inspection)
      - Asn1: from "Google Autofuzz project": propagate error from
	asn_parse_length

    snmpd:
      - BUG: 2810: from "Minzhuan Gong": fix compile with
	--enable-read-only
      - BUG: 2845: fix compilation error with NETSNMP_NO_WRITE_SUPPORT
      - BUG: 2846: fix agent compile when both --enable-read-only and
	--disable-set-support are given.
      - Com2sec and com2sec6 SOURCE values may deny sources as well as
	permit.
      - TLSTM MIB: Fix support for sha256, 384 and 512 fingerprints
      - BUG: 2830: Make the agentxperms keyword work again

    agentx:
      - From "Google AutoFuzz project": account for the nul character we
	will add to the string.
      - From "Google Autofuzz project": additional agentx protocol parser
	bounds checking

    Win32:
      - Add support for the DTLS-UDP and TLS-TCP transports
      - Win32/MSVC general cleanup

    unspecified:
      - Fix bug #2832 for building new checkbandwidth script
      - Many fixes found by Coverity scans


We're closing in on a final release. The current plan is to have
release candidate 1 next week.

Robert

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