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.Kletnieksvt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieksvt.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:55 AM
To: Eric Brandwine
Cc: Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr; incidentslists.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
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