CVE-2014-2285

medium

Published 2014-04-27 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

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.

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.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`5.7.2.1~dfsg-3`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.7.2.1~dfsg-3`
debian	forky	fixed	`5.7.2.1~dfsg-3`
debian	sid	fixed	`5.7.2.1~dfsg-3`
debian	trixie	fixed	`5.7.2.1~dfsg-3`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
net-snmp	net-snmp	`{"endIncluding":"5.7.3"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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