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title: "CVE-2007-5846\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2007-5846

Publication date 6 November 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## 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.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-5846?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| net-snmp | 7.10 gutsy | Fixed 5.3.1-6ubuntu2.1 |
| 7.04 feisty | Fixed 5.2.3-4ubuntu1.1 |
| 6.10 edgy | Fixed 5.2.2-5ubuntu1.1 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 5.2.1.2-4ubuntu2.2 |

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* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

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

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5846)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5846)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2007-5846)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5846)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-564-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-564-1)
+ Net-SNMP vulnerability
+ 9 January 2008

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5846>