CVE-2012-6151

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-12-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Net-SNMP 5.7.1 and earlier, when AgentX is registering to handle a MIB and processing GETNEXT requests, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or infinite loop, CPU consumption, and hang) by causing the AgentX subagent to timeout.

Affected products

macOS: 10.11.0
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.10
net-snmp: through 5.7.1; 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 (+13)

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Oct/msg00005.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/398
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/415
http://secunia.com/advisories/55804
http://secunia.com/advisories/57870
http://secunia.com/advisories/59974
http://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/2411/
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201409-02.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64048
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2166-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038007

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