CVE-2014-2310 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Net-SNMP AgentX by sending crafted multi-object requests with excessive subids.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2014-2310?

CVE-2014-2310 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Apr 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The AgentX subagent in Net-SNMP before 5.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hang) by sending a multi-object request with an Object ID (OID) containing more subids than previous requests, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-6151.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2310?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Net-Snmp Net-Snmp.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2310?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-2310 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2310 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2310, GHSA-7x87-wr85-45rj.

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