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Re: SNMP Enabled on Dell Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry McGeorge)
Thu Feb 14 17:15:57 2002
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From: "Barry McGeorge" <yodatjm@mediaone.net>
To: "Will Backman" <whb@ceimaine.org>, <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:18:45 -0800
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I'm running a Dell PowerEdge 2500 and while SNMP is running by default, my
community string is PUBLIC with READ ONLY.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Backman" <whb@ceimaine.org>
To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:15 PM
Subject: SNMP Enabled on Dell Servers
> While Microsoft says that SNMP is NOT enabled on any version of Windows,
> my new Dell PowerEdge with Win2000SP2 came with it installed and
> running. Besides the current exploits, it uses the stupid defaults that
> NT4.0 has, which is a community string of PUBLIC with READ-CREATE.
>
> I figure the new holes in SNMP will case a lot of scanning for the
> service, and there may be a lot of folks who do not realize that the
> vendor might have installed it and turned it on in the OEM media.
>
> Will Backman
> Network Administrator
>
