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CVE-2009-1887

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—

agent/snmp_agent.c in snmpd in net-snmp 5.0.9 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted SNMP GETBULK request that triggers a divide-by-zero error. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-4309.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Net-snmp — Net-snmp

CWEs

References

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