Re: Cert Advisory 2002-03 and HP JetDirect

From: Russell Fulton (R.FULTON@auckland.ac.nz)
Date: 02/20/02


From: Russell Fulton <R.FULTON@auckland.ac.nz>
To: Information Security <InformationSecurity@federatedinv.com>
Date: 20 Feb 2002 15:19:51 +1300

On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 04:53, Information Security wrote:
> It appears that HP JetDirect firmware is more susceptible to SNMP
> vulnerabilities than originally referenced in the CERT Advisory CA-2002-03
> (http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-03.html). Some basic testing with
> Protos on an internal network seems to indicate that devices with JetDirect
> firmware x.08.32 crash each time a single malformed SNMP packet is received.
> The HP Download Manager for JetDirect reports that the printer software is
> up-to-date.

After running the SANS tool for finding machines where snmp is active I
had a number of people say that their HP printers had
a/ hung up and required powering off or resetting
b/ spewed out garbage pages.

-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer
The University of Auckland,  New Zealand



Relevant Pages

  • Re: SNMP vulnerabilities
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  • Cert Advisory 2002-03 and HP JetDirect
    ... It appears that HP JetDirect firmware is more susceptible to SNMP ... Protos on an internal network seems to indicate that devices with JetDirect ... firmware x.08.32 crash each time a single malformed SNMP packet is received. ...
    (Bugtraq)