CVE-2008-2292: Net-SNMP

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the __snprint_value function in snmp_get in Net-SNMP 5.1.4, 5.2.4, and 5.4.1, as used in SNMP.xs for Perl, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large OCTETSTRING in an attribute value pair (AVP).

Affected products

• Net-SNMP Net-SNMP: version 5.1.4 only; version 5.2.4 only; version 5.4.1 only

Published 2008-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.