>> Net-snmp GETBULK Requests Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Net-snmp GETBULK Requests Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3802 CVE ID : CVE-2007-5846
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-11-08
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Net-snmp, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing GETBULK requests with a large "max-repeaters" value, which could be exploited by remote attackes to exhaust all available memory resources, creating a denial of service condition.
