Buffer overflow in Castle Rock Snmpc

CVE-2008-2214

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Network Manager in Castle Rock Computing SNMPc 7.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long community string in an SNMP TRAP packet.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2008-05-14 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.088 (95.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.088 · newest: 0.088 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Castle Rock Snmpc

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

securityreason.com/securityalert/3886 (third-party-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/28990 (vdb-entry)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42104 (vdb-entry)
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1403/references (vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491454/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
secunia.com/advisories/30036 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/critical-vulnerability-in-snmpc/ (Patch)