Re: Cert Advisory 2002-03 and HP JetDirect

From: Russell Fulton (R.FULTONat_private)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 18:19:51 PST

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    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
    



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