CVE-2008-4309

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-10-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Integer 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.

Affected products

net-snmp: 5.2.5, 5.3.2.2, 5.4

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Dec/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125017764422557&w=2
http://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/net-snmp/tags/Ext-5-2-5-1/net-snmp/agent/snmp_agent.c?r1=17271&r2=17272&pathrev=17272
http://secunia.com/advisories/32539
http://secunia.com/advisories/32560
http://secunia.com/advisories/32664
http://secunia.com/advisories/32711
http://secunia.com/advisories/33003
http://secunia.com/advisories/33095
http://secunia.com/advisories/33631

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