CVE-2007-5846

Published: 6 November 2007

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.

Notes

bug report has debdiffs
raised to medium as it is remote DoS

Status

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-564-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5846
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-snmp/+bug/164007