CVE-2014-2285 Information

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.

Reference

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