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.
Published: 2007-11-06
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: 15.4% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1483-1 New net-snmp packages fix denial of service vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-564-1 Net-SNMP vulnerability
References
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198346 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/net-snmp/tags/Ext-5-4-1/net-snmp/agent/snmp_agent.c?view=log cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/38904 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27558 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27685 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27689 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27733 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27740 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27965 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28413 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28825 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29785 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-31.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=528095&group_id=12694 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1712988&group_id=12694&atid=112694 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1483 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:225 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1045.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490917/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26378 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018918 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-564-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3802 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1234/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA43730 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5846 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11258 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5846 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00613.html cve-icon cve-icon
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Net-snmp Net-snmp
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:47:00.530Z

Reserved: 2007-11-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-5846

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Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-06T21:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-5846

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-5846 - Bugzilla

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