CVE-2014-2285: Net-SNMP

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Net-SNMP Net-SNMP: up to and including 5.7.3

Published 2014-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.