CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-2285

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2014-04-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-04-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

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.

Affected configurations

• net-snmp net-snmp (<= 5.7.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References