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RE: SNMP vulnerability test?
From: Jason Craig <craig () agdean ucdavis edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:28:13 -0800
M$ is full of crap on this one... We don't use SNMP for anything, and we're finding it randomly enabled on a number of workstations and nearly all win2k servers. We are running locked-down IIS and OWA, and for whatever reason, these services turn on SNMP. However, turning it off doesn't seem to hamper them. So, the obvious logical question ensues: why do IIS and OWA (and possibly just win2k server) enable SNMP while not requiring SNMP to function properly? Additionally, why do some installs of wkstn enable SNMP while others do not? I can verify nearly all of these instances as I am the one doing the installs (and yes, personal web server was never installed). -jc -----Original Message----- From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:55 AM To: Eric Brandwine Cc: Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr; incidents () lists securityfocus com Subject: Re: SNMP vulnerability test? On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 00:34:00 GMT, Eric Brandwine said:
What're they printing from? I'd check that first. The number of win98/nt/2k hosts listening on SNMP is terrifying.
How did it get turned on? Microsoft said in the CERT advisory: Summary: All Microsoft implementations of SNMP v1 are affected by the vulnerability. The SNMP v1 service is not installed or running by default on any version of Windows. A patch is underway to eliminate the vulnerability. In the meantime, we recommend that affected customers disable the SNMP v1 service. Is this like the "W2K doesn't install IIS, but if you upgraded a machine that had Personal Webpage (or whatever it was) it will upgrade that to IIS"? -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
Current thread:
- RE: SNMP vulnerability test? Jason Craig (Feb 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: SNMP vulnerability test? Ralph Los (Feb 13)
- Re: SNMP vulnerability test? Kevin Moon (Feb 13)
- RE: SNMP vulnerability test? Filip Jonckers (Feb 13)
- RE: SNMP vulnerability test? Matthew LaGrange (Feb 13)