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Re: Bug Report with jetdirect printer server
From: RB <aoz.syn () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:23:42 -0700
ACK. Most printers are junk. We have the same problem.
ACK. Same with HP-UX 10.x and CNR on Windows running the service in debug mode - with experiementation one can narrow it down to a small set of triggers, sometimes even a single packet. This is a long-standing issue with poorly-written [usually legacy] apps that Nmap just exposes, usually resulting in denial-of-service with the occasional compromisable crash. To reiterate (since I've had long arguments with UNIX greybeards and firmware engineers that firmly believe otherwise), this is not a bug in Nmap, it's an application bug. Some commercial scanners have options for 'safe' scanning, which purport to turn off the crash-inducing behavior, but tell that to the Zebra printers and Symbol handsets I've seen crash just because too many TCP ports were scanned. RB _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- Bug Report with jetdirect printer server Travis Austin (Dec 27)
- Re: Bug Report with jetdirect printer server Brandon Enright (Dec 27)
- Re: Bug Report with jetdirect printer server RB (Dec 27)
- Re: Bug Report with jetdirect printer server Brandon Enright (Dec 27)