Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 27, 2014· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2014-2285
CVE-2014-2285
Description
The perl_trapd_handler function in perl/TrapReceiver/TrapReceiver.xs in Net-SNMP 5.7.3.pre3 and earlier, when using certain Perl versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (snmptrapd crash) via an empty community string in an SNMP trap, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference within the newSVpv function in Perl.
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References
11- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdVendor Advisory
- comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/12284nvd
- kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/indexnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00060.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00061.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/59974nvd
- sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/patches/1275/nvd
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201409-02.xmlnvd
- www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/09/msg116250.htmlnvd
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0322.htmlnvd
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