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CVE-2025-68615

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Description

net-snmp is a SNMP application library, tools and daemon. Prior to versions 5.9.5 and 5.10.pre2, a specially crafted packet to an net-snmp snmptrapd daemon can cause a buffer overflow and the daemon to crash. This issue has been patched in versions 5.9.5 and 5.10.pre2.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.8 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2025-12-23 00:15:43.830000
Last modified
2026-10-19 22:10:00.130000
View original CVE JSON
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  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T22:10:00.130",
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