FKIE_CVE-2012-6151
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-12-13 18:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:47
Severity
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| apple | mac_os_x | 10.11.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 10.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 13.10 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | * | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.0 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.0.1 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.0.2 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.0.3 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.0.4 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.0.5 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.0.6 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.0.7 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.0.8 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.0.9 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.1 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.1.2 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.2 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.3 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.3.0.1 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.4 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.5 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.6 | |
| net-snmp | net-snmp | 5.7 |
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