CVE-2007-5846

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 29.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

net-snmp: through 5.4.1

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198346
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html
http://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/net-snmp/tags/Ext-5-4-1/net-snmp/agent/snmp_agent.c?view=log
http://osvdb.org/38904
http://secunia.com/advisories/27558
http://secunia.com/advisories/27685
http://secunia.com/advisories/27689
http://secunia.com/advisories/27733
http://secunia.com/advisories/27740
http://secunia.com/advisories/27965
http://secunia.com/advisories/28413
http://secunia.com/advisories/28825

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