Re: Netsnmpv5.8 possible security flaw

Wes Hardaker via Net-snmp-coders <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
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Madhusudhana R <[email protected]> writes:

> With Netsnmp v5.8  upgraded to my project (which was already working with v5.7.3), I am finding one
> problem which is as described below.
> 
> An user is created in agent (which is netsnmp v5.8)

How did you configure the access control of the agent?  Specifically, if
you have a line like "rwuser NAME" in it, you MUST change it to "rwuser
NAME priv" to force encryption-only traffic.  Otherwise the agent will
answer with both encrypted and unencrypted requests (but still
authenticated).  I suspect that this is your issue, and your network
management software is attempting (and succeeding) at falling back to
unencrypted.

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Wes Hardaker
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