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New Issues Found with Windows Print Spooler

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJuly 16, 2021

Last month, cybersecurity experts inadvertently unveiled a PoC exploit for a dangerous problem related to the Windows Print Spooler service, which is a universal interface between OS, applications and local or network printers, allowing application developers to submit print

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Microsoft declares that Printnightmare patch works correctly

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJuly 12, 2021

Previously, many IS researchers warned that Microsoft’s emergency patch for a dangerous Printnightmare vulnerability was ineffective and that it did not eliminate the problem completely. Let me remind you that the experts found that even after installing the

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The official patch for the PrintNightmare vulnerability was ineffective

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJuly 8, 2021

Earlier this week, Microsoft released an emergency patch for a critical PrintNightmare bug recently discovered in Windows Print Spooler (spoolsv.exe), but it was ineffective. Microsoft assigned the bug ID CVE-2021-34527, and also confirmed that the problem allows arbitrary

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Microsoft releases unscheduled patch for PrintNightmare vulnerability

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJuly 7, 2021

Microsoft has prepared an emergency patch for a critical PrintNightmare bug that was recently discovered in Windows Print Spooler (spoolsv.exe). The PrintNightmare issue caused much confusion, as Microsoft initially combined two vulnerabilities under one identifier

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Unofficial patch published for PrintNightmare vulnerability

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyJuly 5, 2021

Last week I talked about a PoC exploit for the dangerous vulnerability CVE-2021-34527 in Windows Print Spooler (spoolsv.exe), which researchers named PrintNightmare, and now an unofficial patch for this problem has been published. When the exploit was published, the