net-snmp vulnerabilities

2023-01-1612:18:48

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osv.dev

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

73.2%

JSON

USN-5795-1 and 5543-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Net-SNMP. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled certain requests. A
remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause Net-SNMP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service.

Yu Zhang and Nanyu Zhong discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled
memory operations when processing certain requests. A remote attacker could
use this issue to cause Net-SNMP to crash, resulting in a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.