I have seen similar things when running nessus against a local subnet during security audits. It was a while ago but I believe the particular attack is the 'land' dos by m3lt. http://www.insecure.org/sploits/land.ip.DOS.html On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Brendan Murphy wrote: > Hi all- > More than a few of our networked HP Laserjet printers have been > sporadically printing out entire trays of paper that have a '1', 'u', 'i' > in the upper right hand corner of the page, -or- a string of text along > the top of the page. The jobs don't appear on the queue. This problem > was noticed very rarely beginning a couple of months ago, but has > increased in frequency over the last two evenings. ...and it usually only > occurs during the evening...but has occured during the day. Again, it > usually goes through the entire tray of paper unless the printer is > shutdown. > Has anyone heard of any exploits to LaserJet printers, or printers in > general that might cause this problem? We've been through the gambit with > HP and nothing seems to match... --------------------------------------- -t ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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