CVE-2008-2292

Summary

CVECVE-2008-2292
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-05-18 14:20:00 UTC
Updated2017-09-29 01:31:00 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in the __snprint_value function in snmp_get in Net-SNMP 5.1.4, 5.2.4, and 5.4.1, as used in SNMP.xs for Perl, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large OCTETSTRING in an attribute value pair (AVP).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.1.4 All All All
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.2.4 All All All
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.4.1 All All All
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.1.4 All All All
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.2.4 All All All
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.4.1 All All All

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