CVE-2014-2285

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The perl_trapd_handler function in perl/TrapReceiver/TrapReceiver.xs in Net-SNMP 5.7.3.pre3 and earlier, when using certain Perl versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (snmptrapd crash) via an empty community string in an SNMP trap, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference within the newSVpv function in Perl.

Affected products

net-snmp: through 5.7.3

References

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12284
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00060.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00061.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59974
http://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/patches/1275/
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201409-02.xml
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/09/msg116250.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072044
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072778
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0322.html
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12284

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