CVE-2012-6151 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-6151

Net-SNMP 5.7.1 and earlier, when AgentX is registering to handle...

Vulnerability Description

Net-SNMP 5.7.1 and earlier, when AgentX is registering to handle a MIB and processing GETNEXT requests, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or infinite loop, CPU consumption, and hang) by causing the AgentX subagent to timeout.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

mac os x, ubuntu linux, net-snmp
Vulnerable Versions:
10.11.0, 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.10, 0, 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.0.6, 5.0.7, 5.0.8, 5.0.9, 5.1, 5.1.2, 5.2, 5.3, 5.3.0.1, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7

Timeline

Official Publish: December 13th, 2013
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.