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CVE-2008-2214

Status: ModifiedHigh (10)—

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Network Manager in Castle Rock Computing SNMPc 7.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long community string in an SNMP TRAP packet.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Castle Rock — Snmpc

CWEs

References

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