bugtraq - Re: vulnerabilities of postscript printers

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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:11:42 +0100
From: Nicolas Gregoire <ngregoire@...probe.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: vulnerabilities of postscript printers

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:15, Dragos Ruiu wrote:

> Network attached printers are good portscanners in practice :-).

And their poor IP stacks are easy to use for Idle scans, allowing to
hide the real source of packets.

And you could too keep your sploits on their hard-drive, which could be
the only one of the network without an AV monitoring it.

-- 
Nicolas Gregoire ----- Consultant en Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information
ngregoire@...probe.com ------[ ExaProbe ]------ http://www.exaprobe.com/
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