CVE-2007-5846 Information

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.

Reference

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 http://secunia.com/advisories/29785 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-31.xml http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=528095&group_id=12694 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1712988&group_id=12694&atid=112694 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1483 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:225 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1045.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490917/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26378 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018918 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-564-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3802 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1234/references https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA43730 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11258 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00613.html