CVE-2014-2285

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    CVE-2014-2285

    Published: 27 Apr 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/59974, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072044, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0322.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072778, 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://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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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