CVE-2007-5846
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 29.2%EU EUVD
The SNMP agent (snmp_agent.c) in net-snmp before 5.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a GETBULK request with a large max-repeaters value.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 29.2% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5816)
- Published
- November 6, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5816 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- net-snmp / net-snmp
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198346
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html(Patch)
- http://net-snmp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/net-snmp/tags/Ext-5-4-1/net-snmp/agent/snmp_agent.c?view=log
- http://osvdb.org/38904
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27558(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27685(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27689(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27733(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27740(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27965(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28413(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28825(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29785(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-31.xml
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=528095&group_id=12694
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1712988&group_id=12694&atid=112694
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1483(Patch)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:225
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1045.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490917/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26378(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018918
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-564-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3802(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1234/references(Vendor Advisory)
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA43730
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11258
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00613.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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