CVE-2008-4309

Summary

CVECVE-2008-4309
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-10-31 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:02:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in the netsnmp_create_subtree_cache function in agent/snmp_agent.c in net-snmp 5.4 before 5.4.2.1, 5.3 before 5.3.2.3, and 5.2 before 5.2.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SNMP GETBULK request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, related to the number of responses or repeats.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.2.5 All All All
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.3.2.2 All All All
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.4 All All All
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.2.5 All All All
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.3.2.2 All All All
Application Net-snmp Net-snmp 5.4 All All All

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