CVE-2012-6151

Publication date 13 December 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
net-snmp	13.10 saucy	Fixed 5.7.2~dfsg-8ubuntu1.1
	13.04 raring	Ignored end of life
	12.10 quantal	Fixed 5.4.3~dfsg-2.5ubuntu1.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.2
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.3

Notes

mdeslaur

upstream patch breaks ABI

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
net-snmp	Upstream: http://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/code/ci/f9304c83f76202db0e684269ca1af32e43cd9db4 Upstream: http://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/code/ci/793d596838ff7cb48a73b675d62897c56c9e62df/

CVE-2012-6151

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Notes

mdeslaur

Patch details

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