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Medium USN-5543-1 6 CVEs

net-snmp vulnerabilities

Published Aug 1, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Yu Zhang and Nanyu Zhong discovered that Net-SNMP incorrectly handled
memory operations when processing certain requests. A remote attacker could
use this issue to cause Net-SNMP to crash, resulting in a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS net-snmp 5.7.3+dfsg-1.8ubuntu3.7
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS net-snmp 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.4
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS net-snmp 5.9.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2.2

Vulnerabilities 6

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp: A buffer overflow in the handling of the INDEX of NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB can cause an out-of-bounds memory access.

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a buffer overflow in the handling of the `INDEX` of `NET-SNMP-VACM-MIB` can cause an out-of-bounds memory access. A user with read-only credentials can…

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp vulnerable to Improper Input Validation when SETing malformed OIDs in master agent and subagent simultaneously

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a user with read-write credentials can exploit an Improper Input Validation vulnerability when SETing malformed OIDs in master agent and subagent simul…

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp: A malformed OID in a SET request to SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmAccessTable can cause an out-of-bounds memory access

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a malformed OID in a SET request to `SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmAccessTable` can cause an out-of-bounds memory access. A user with read-write credent…

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp: A malformed OID in a SET request to NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB::nsLogTable can cause a NULL pointer dereference

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a user with read-write credentials can use a malformed OID in a `SET` request to `NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB::nsLogTable` to cause a NULL pointer dereference. …

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp: A malformed OID in a SET request to NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB::nsLogTable can cause a NULL pointer dereference

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a user with read-only credentials can use a malformed OID in a `GET-NEXT` to the `nsVacmAccessTable` to cause a NULL pointer dereference. Version 5.9.2…

  • Medium 6.5

    net-snmp: A malformed OID in a SET to the nsVacmAccessTable can cause a NULL pointer dereference.

    net-snmp provides various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol. Prior to version 5.9.2, a user with read-write credentials can use a malformed OID in a SET to the nsVacmAccessTable to cause a NULL pointer dereference. Version 5.9.2 contain…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24805
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24806
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24807
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24808
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24809
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24810