Re: Printer exploit?

[lifeonmars <lifeonmars () ziplip com>]

I have seen similar things when running nessus against a local subnet
during security audits. It was a while ago but I believe the particular
attack is the 'land' dos by m3lt.
http://www.insecure.org/sploits/land.ip.DOS.html

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Brendan Murphy wrote:

> Hi all-
>   More than a few of our networked HP Laserjet printers have been
> sporadically printing out entire trays of paper that have a '1', 'u', 'i'
> in the upper right hand corner of the page, -or- a string of text along   
> the top of the page.  The jobs don't appear on the queue.  This problem
> was noticed very rarely beginning a couple of months ago, but has
> increased in frequency over the last two evenings. ...and it usually only
> occurs during the evening...but has occured during the day.  Again, it
> usually goes through the entire tray of paper unless the printer is
> shutdown.
>    Has anyone heard of any exploits to LaserJet printers, or printers in
> general that might cause this problem?  We've been through the gambit with
> HP and nothing seems to match...



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