CVE-2005-2811

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-09-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Net-SNMP 5.2.1.2 and earlier, on Gentoo Linux, installs certain Perl modules with an insecure DT_RPATH, which could allow local users to gain privileges.

Affected products

net-snmp: through 5.2.1.2_r1; 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4_pre2, 5.0.5 (+9)

References

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-05.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-05.xml

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