CVE-2025-68615

Publication date 23 December 2025

Last updated 7 January 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
net-snmp 25.10 questing
Fixed 5.9.4+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1
25.04 plucky
Fixed 5.9.4+dfsg-1.1ubuntu7.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 5.9.4+dfsg-1.1ubuntu3.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 5.9.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2.9
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu2.9+esm2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 5.7.3+dfsg-1.8ubuntu3.8+esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 5.7.3+dfsg-1ubuntu4.6+esm2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.3+esm4

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
net-snmp

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-7944-1
    • Net-SNMP vulnerability
    • 7 January 2026

Other references