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CVE-2012-6151 (GCVE-0-2012-6151)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-12-13 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:28
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
https://support.apple.com/HT205375 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/2411/ x_refsource_MISC
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0322.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/415 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/398 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2166-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/59974 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/57870 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20140… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=conte… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/55804 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038007 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2012-09-05 00:00
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