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CVE-2002-1170

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-10-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The handle_var_requests function in snmp_agent.c for the SNMP daemon in the Net-SNMP (formerly ucd-snmp) package 5.0.1 through 5.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a NULL dereference.

Affected products

• net-snmp: 5.0.1, 5.0.3, 5.0.4_pre2

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103359362020365&w=2
• http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=216532
• http://www.idefense.com/advisory/10.02.02.txt
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-228.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5862
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10250
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103359362020365&w=2
• http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=216532
• http://www.idefense.com/advisory/10.02.02.txt
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-228.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5862
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10250

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