reading negative integer values (e.g. dskMinPercent) sends snmpd into infinte loop.
the problem is specific to platforms with sizeof int > 4 and is not present in original net-snmp, but is introduced by patch-asn1.c.

Fix: patch-asn1.c, including the fix:


+#if HAVE_UNISTD_H
+#include <unistd.h>
+#endif
 #if HAVE_DMALLOC_H
 #include <dmalloc.h>
 #endif
@@ -584,6 +587,11 @@
         return NULL;
     }
     integer = *intp;
+    if (intsize > 4) {
+       register u_long signmask = ((u_long)1 << ((8 * sizeof(long)) - 1));
+       register u_long signbit = ((integer & signmask) != 0);
+       integer &= (signbit << 31) | 0x7fffffff;
+    }
     /*
      * Truncate "unnecessary" bytes off of the most significant end of this
      * 2's complement integer.  There should be no sequence of 9
@@ -663,6 +671,9 @@
         return NULL;
     }
     integer = *intp;
+    if (intsize > 4) {
+       integer &= 0xffffffff;
+    }
     mask = ((u_long) 0xFF) << (8 * (sizeof(long) - 1));
     /*
      * mask is 0xFF000000 on a big-endian machine
@@ -2668,19 +2679,26 @@
     register long   integer = *intp;
     int             testvalue = (*intp < 0) ? -1 : 0;
     size_t          start_offset = *offset;
+    int             imaxbytes = 4;

     if (intsize != sizeof(long)) {
         _asn_size_err(errpre, intsize, sizeof(long));
         return 0;
     }

+    if (intsize > 4) {
+       register u_long signmask = ((u_long)1 << ((8 * sizeof(long)) - 1));
+       register u_long signbit = ((integer & signmask) != 0);
+       integer &= (signbit << 31) | 0x7fffffff;
+    }
+
     if (((*pkt_len - *offset) < 1) && !(r && asn_realloc(pkt, pkt_len))) {
         return 0;
     }
     *(*pkt + *pkt_len - (++*offset)) = (u_char) integer;
     integer >>= 8;

-    while (integer != testvalue) {
+    while (integer != testvalue && (--imaxbytes)) {
         if (((*pkt_len - *offset) < 1)
             && !(r && asn_realloc(pkt, pkt_len))) {
             return 0;
@@ -2823,6 +2841,10 @@
     if (intsize != sizeof(unsigned long)) {
         _asn_size_err(errpre, intsize, sizeof(unsigned long));
         return 0;
+    }
+
+    if (intsize > 4) {
+       integer &= 0xffffffff;
     }

     if (((*pkt_len - *offset) < 1) && !(r && asn_realloc(pkt, pkt_len))) {--6H2v7S4cHVLvFz2UsJa1pj4qy5ROhFwlJzJwDGrCOP6wHTJp
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--- snmplib/asn1.c.orig Fri Dec 10 18:07:16 2004
+++ snmplib/asn1.c      Fri Jun 10 20:09:34 2005
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@
 #include <in.h>
 #endif
How-To-Repeat: snmpwalk -v 1 target_host dsk

this will output lines up to dskMinimum, getting stuck on dskMinPercent
at the same time, snmpd starts to grow in size and the cpu usage is close to 100%.