>Norm Jacobs writes: >> John Plocher wrote: >> > Darren J Moffat wrote: >> > Q: is there anything I could do to you or find out about you at this >> > point, before any print jobs are sent? >> NO > >Not quite true. You'll have an open UDP port to receive those SNMP >replies. If a Bad Guy on the network can forge packets that cause >your daemon to malfunction, then he can potentially get access to >whatever privileges your daemon has. > >It's _at least_ the classic open-port problem.
And it's detected in port scans which generally upsets customers. Casper
