bugtraq - Re: Leak of SNMP write password via SNMP read community in NETGEAR WG102

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Message-ID: <20090109165208.GA1229@honey.hogyros.de>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:52:08 +0100
From: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@...yros.de>
To: mad-vaittes@....ing.tu-bs.de
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Leak of SNMP write password via SNMP read community in NETGEAR
	WG102 - Prosafe 802.11g Access Point

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. vendor fix required.

This AP can use VLAN tagging to separate management traffic from user data,
which is generally a good idea in any environment.

   Simon