Microgoof of the Day: The Print Thing
July 9, 2021
I read “Microsoft’s Emergency PrintNightmare Pat Doesn’t actually Fix the Issue.” If this article is correct, it warrants a honk from the Beyond Search goose. The story was the inspiration for an irregular series of posts to be called “Microgoof of the Day.” The write up says without any stand up comedy joke writer:
…there are reports of new proof-of-exploit code that circumvents the fix altogether.
Well, well, well.
The write up nods to another publication with this passage:
Reporting on the findings of Benjamin Delpy, creator of popular post exploitation tool Mimikatz, The Register says that it’s how Microsoft checks for remote libraries in the PrintNightmare patch that offers an opportunity to work around the patch. “They did not test it for real,” Delpy bluntly told The Register, reportedly describing the issue as “weird from Microsoft.”
Weird from Microsoft? Hmmm.
Regardless of who’s right or wrong, PrintNightmare is a hoot in some circles. In others, maybe not so much. That’s the microgoof for you.
Stephen E Arnold, July 9, 2021
Comments
-
- Subscribe to Beyond Search
Feature archive
News archive
-
