Windows Update Print Spooler

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Microsoft issues urgent security warning: Update your PC immediately - CNN


Microsoft issues urgent security warning: Update your PC immediately
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business
Updated 11:06 AM EDT, Wed July 07, 2021

New York(CNN Business)Microsoft is urging Windows users to immediately install an update after security researchers found a serious vulnerability in the operating system.

The security flaw, known as PrintNightmare, affects the Windows Print Spooler service. Researchers at cybersecurity company Sangfor accidentally published a how-to guide for exploiting it.

The researchers tweeted in late May that they had found vulnerabilities in Print Spooler, which allows multiple users to access a printer. They published a proof-of-concept online by mistake and subsequently deleted it -- but not before it was published elsewhere online, including developer site GitHub.

[GeneOR95]

Hey Brian,
They are already pushing the fix overnight. Mine updated automatically last night.

[KenB]

Both of my Win 10 machines auto-updated correctly.

I have a Server 2019 VM that I only turn on when needed (to save resources) but it updated when I ran Windows Update.

All the OS versions were released earlier yesterday, except Server 2016 for some reason.

Somewhere between about 5 PM EST and 8 AM today, it was also released.

[rthonpm]

Server core installs of Windows server were immune to this attack as the print spooler service is only installed if the print server role is added to the server.

We had several customers ask about the vulnerability after hearing about it in the news. Fortunately, a good 80-90% of our server installs are server core so we were able to spare our customers downtime other than ensuring their print servers were patched.

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[fbkhan3]

Update, spooler issue is resolved , They had some kind of group policy in place and that was making it disabled.

Thank you for all your valuable input.


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