Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-5621  

It was discovered that in net-snmp before 5.8 the snmp_pdu_parse() function could leave incompletely parsed varBind variables in the list of variables. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash snmpd or potentially execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of the user running snmpd.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

It was discovered that in net-snmp before 5.8 the snmp_pdu_parse() function could leave incompletely parsed varBind variables in the list of variables. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash snmpd or potentially execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of the user running snmpd.

AVG-777 net-snmp 5.7.3-9 5.8-1 High Fixed

17 Oct 2018 ASA-201810-11 AVG-777 net-snmp High multiple issues

https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/2615/
https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/code/ci/f23bcd3ac6ddee5d0a48f9703007ccc738914791
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/13/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212408