#VU49578 Resource exhaustion in Net-snmp - CVE-2007-5846

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#VU49578 Resource exhaustion in Net-snmp - CVE-2007-5846

Published: November 6, 2007 / Updated: January 18, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU49578
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-5846
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Net-snmp
Software vendor:
net-snmp.sourceforge.net

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the SNMP agent (snmp_agent.c) in net-snmp does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion by sending a GETBULK request with a large max-repeaters value and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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