20-year-old Windows printer flaw exposes you to malware

[Kevin Lancaster]

20-year-old Windows printer flaw exposes you to malware

Vectra Networks has discovered an ancient vulnerability in Windows.

 

[Thor]

Holy Hell, imagine how many malicious actions happened over the years because of this.

 

[MickeyD]

Holy Hell, imagine how many maliciousness actions happened over the years because of this.

 

[Kloofvreter]

Ok thanks

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Holy Hell, imagine how many maliciousness actions happened over the years because of this.

If it was widely exploited they would've found it much sooner...

 

[Thor]

swiftkey

 

[Thor]

If it was widely exploited they would've found it much sooner...

OR some hidden Chinese firm kept it on the down low and did unspeakable things we would never know.

 

[MickeyD]

swiftkey

a flaw exposing you?

 

[grok]

OR some hidden Chinese firm kept it on the down low and did unspeakable things we would never know.

/demands my share of unspeakable things from Chinese firm in case I missed out..

 

[The_Ogre]

At varsity (2000-2002) we were given a quota which only allowed each student to print 50 free pages per month, once you've depleted that you had to pay per page. This was linked to your AD account. I found a bug in the print spooler which allowed me to print when my quota was depleted. It goes like so:

You start the print job, open the printer queue, cancel your job (there'll be quite a long delay before the job actually disappears), before your job disappears, right-click and restart it. This bypasses the quota check (for some reason). The last two steps should be done as quickly as possible.

I used to sell prints to other students for cigarette money

If the Windows print spooler was unchanged as the article suggests then I'm fairly sure this will still work, maybe somebody who runs an AD network can test it out for us

 

[kianm]

Holy Hell, imagine how many malicious actions happened over the years because of this.

 

[kianm]

At varsity (2000-2002) we were given a quota which only allowed each student to print 50 free pages per month, once you've depleted that you had to pay per page. This was linked to your AD account. I found a bug in the print spooler which allowed me to print when my quota was depleted. It goes like so:

You start the print job, open the printer queue, cancel your job (there'll be quite a long delay before the job actually disappears), before your job disappears, right-click and restart it. This bypasses the quota check (for some reason). The last two steps should be done as quickly as possible.

I used to sell prints to other students for cigarette money

If the Windows print spooler was unchanged as the article suggests then I'm fairly sure this will still work, maybe somebody who runs an AD network can test it out for us

Interesting, this needs to be checked