SB2023022247 - Denial of service in Siemens SCALANCE X200 IRT Products
Published: February 22, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023022247
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2007-5846)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the SNMP agent (snmp_agent.c) in net-snmp does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion by sending a GETBULK request with a large max-repeaters value and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.