CVE-2012-6151 Information

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.

Reference

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 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89485 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0322.html https://support.apple.com/HT205375