PSARC/2007/499 Automatic discovery of network attached printers

[James Carlson]

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.

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