DOS attack against HP JetDirect Printers

Hello, In case anyone is interested, scanning HP printers with tools such as nmap will cause the printer to lock up hard. I discovered this while trying to diagnose a connection problem we were having with a printer. I've verified this with at least the following versions of JetDirect: Firmware...

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 19:47:29 -0600 From: [email protected] Subject: Another way to crash HP 5M/5N printers In addition to using nestea2 to crash any HP printer, I seem to have found a way to crash certain HP printers with a single perfectly legitimate SNMP packet. The potential impact of this...