Monday, September 20th 2021
Microsoft's Windows PrintNightmare Patch Breaks Network Printing Functionality
As many of you are aware, Microsoft's Windows 10 operating systems have been infected with the recent PrintNightmare vulnerability, where the Windows Print Spooler service would perform improper file operations, and attackers had room to exploit that behaveour. As the vulnerability allowed SYSTEM-level (admin) privileges, the users would be left with a vulnerable PC that an attacker could access remotely and perform malicious code execution. Back on Tuesday of last week, Microsoft has issued the patch that attempts to stop this exploit from happening, however, it seems like the fix has broken the Network Printing functionality of Windows-based machines.
According to the BleepingComputer report, the Tuesday patch for Windows has left a number of PCs with a broken Network Printing functionality, where the OS is reporting different types of errors each time the request for Network Printing occurs. It is important to note that the issue affects only printers that are attached by a USB connector, and mainly HP, Konica Minolta, and Canon models are in trouble. So far, Microsoft has not fixed this issue so users are left to wait for another patch round.
Sources:
Bleeping Computer, via Tom's Hardware
According to the BleepingComputer report, the Tuesday patch for Windows has left a number of PCs with a broken Network Printing functionality, where the OS is reporting different types of errors each time the request for Network Printing occurs. It is important to note that the issue affects only printers that are attached by a USB connector, and mainly HP, Konica Minolta, and Canon models are in trouble. So far, Microsoft has not fixed this issue so users are left to wait for another patch round.
32 Comments on Microsoft's Windows PrintNightmare Patch Breaks Network Printing Functionality
-And then she saw... a WINDOWS LOGO!
-That's not scary.
-It is if you're a laser printer.
You wouldn't believe the amount of stuff that is installed for an HP printer. We're talking the printer driver itself, the driver to handle faxes (yes, that still exists), software to handle incoming scans from the printer, software to initiate a remote scan, OCR software, etc. The whole installation package is about 250 MBs in size.
i already do disable the print spooler service, also done disable client ....networks n file.... sharing ,also cannot work.
nothing different. still 0x0000011b n 0x00000bcb ?
it's possible to use printing over RDP? safe? or other solution?
Any someone help ? Please! S.O.S . Tq