CVE-2012-6151: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 9.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Net-SNMP 5.7.1 and earlier, when AgentX is registering to handle a MIB and processing GETNEXT requests, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or infinite loop, CPU consumption, and hang) by causing the AgentX subagent to timeout.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.11.0 only
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only; version 13.10 only
• Net-SNMP Net-SNMP: up to and including 5.7.1; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-12-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.