CVE-2014-2285
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 3.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 3.3% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-2323)
- Published
- April 27, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-2323 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- net-snmp / net-snmp
References
- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12284
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00060.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00061.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59974
- http://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/patches/1275/
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201409-02.xml
- http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/09/msg116250.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072044(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072778
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0322.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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