CVE-2007-5846

Impact

The SNMP agent (snmp_agent.c) in net-snmp before 5.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a GETBULK request with a large max-repeaters value.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198346
• http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html
• http://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/net-snmp/tags/Ext-5-4-1/net-snmp/agent/snmp_agent.c?view=log
• http://osvdb.org/38904
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27558
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27685
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27689
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27733
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27740
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27965
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28413
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28825
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29785
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-31.xml
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=528095&group_id=12694
• http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1712988&group_id=12694&atid=112694
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1483
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:225
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1045.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490917/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26378
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018918
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-564-1
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3802