CVE-2008-2292

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-05-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer 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).

Affected products

net-snmp: 5.1.4, 5.2.4, 5.4.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30187
http://secunia.com/advisories/30615
http://secunia.com/advisories/30647
http://secunia.com/advisories/31155
http://secunia.com/advisories/31334
http://secunia.com/advisories/31351
http://secunia.com/advisories/31467
http://secunia.com/advisories/31568
http://secunia.com/advisories/32664
http://secunia.com/advisories/33003
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-02.xml

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