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Re: Leak of SNMP write password via SNMP read community in NETGEARWG102 - Prosafe 802.11g Access Point
Jan 09 2009 04:52PM
Simon Richter (Simon Richter hogyros de)
Hi,
> WG102 offers the the typical SNMP write & SNMP read community password 'protection'.
SNMP communities are a safety, not a security measure. I know of very few
SNMP implementations that have protections against brute force or
dictionary attacks.
> Proposed fixes:
> do not enable SNMP at all...
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> WG102 offers the the typical SNMP write & SNMP read community password 'protection'.
SNMP communities are a safety, not a security measure. I know of very few
SNMP implementations that have protections against brute force or
dictionary attacks.
> Proposed fixes:
> do not enable SNMP at all...
[ more ]