CVE-2007-5846

critical

Description

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.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00613.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11258

https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA43730

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1234/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3802

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-564-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018918

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26378

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490917/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1045.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:225

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1483

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1712988&group_id=12694&atid=112694

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=528095&group_id=12694

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-31.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/29785

http://secunia.com/advisories/28825

http://secunia.com/advisories/28413

http://secunia.com/advisories/27965

http://secunia.com/advisories/27740

http://secunia.com/advisories/27733

http://secunia.com/advisories/27689

http://secunia.com/advisories/27685

http://secunia.com/advisories/27558

http://osvdb.org/38904

http://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/net-snmp/tags/Ext-5-4-1/net-snmp/agent/snmp_agent.c?view=log

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198346

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-11-06

Updated: 2018-10-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

Detections

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