VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6151

medium
Published 2013-12-13 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38854 dos linux verified
Ken Farnen · 2012-09-05

Net-SNMP - SNMPD AgentX Subagent Timeout Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
macos macOS Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
10.11.0 Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.10 Affected —
12.10 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
10.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 5.7.2.1~dfsg-3
sid Fixed 5.7.2.1~dfsg-3
forky Fixed 5.7.2.1~dfsg-3
bullseye Fixed 5.7.2.1~dfsg-3
bookworm Fixed 5.7.2.1~dfsg-3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
net-snmpnet-snmp{"endIncluding":"5.7.1"}
net-snmpnet-snmp5.0
net-snmpnet-snmp5.0.1
net-snmpnet-snmp5.0.2
net-snmpnet-snmp5.0.3
net-snmpnet-snmp5.0.4
net-snmpnet-snmp5.0.5
net-snmpnet-snmp5.0.6
net-snmpnet-snmp5.0.7
net-snmpnet-snmp5.0.8
net-snmpnet-snmp5.0.9
net-snmpnet-snmp5.1
net-snmpnet-snmp5.1.2
net-snmpnet-snmp5.2
net-snmpnet-snmp5.3
net-snmpnet-snmp5.3.0.1
net-snmpnet-snmp5.4
net-snmpnet-snmp5.5
net-snmpnet-snmp5.6
net-snmpnet-snmp5.7

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.