Re: [squid-users] mrtg

From: Squid Support (Henrik Nordstrom) <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:05:39 +0200

Simon White wrote:

> FWIW, I would recommend not using "public" as the community name. I know
> that there were some big security issues with SNMP, allowing DoS attacks
> to many SNMP devices to be reasonably easily perpetrated.
>
> I know that most SNMP devices now have patches available, and I think even
> that Squid was not affected (certainly not Squid2.4STABLE6).

There was many SNMP issues in Squid, including a DoS condition triggered
regardless of the community string or other access controls.

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Received on Wed Apr 17 2002 - 05:05:45 MDT

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