HP has new firmware for its Laserjet printers released that unauthorized access to the devices must be avoided. The update must be the problem ‘curb’, but it is unclear whether the leak final poem.
At the end of november made, security researchers announced that Laserjet printers HP a vulnerability. Troublemakers unnoticed the firmware of LaserJet printers from HP can update, allowing them to print jobs were able to manipulate, and the printer would be able to reprogram.
HP bagatelliseerde the problem but it has now and the new firmware is released. The update must include the risk of unauthorized access to cripple, where the manufacturer the word ‘mitigate’ is used. As CNet also indicates is unclear whether the leak also final poem. When HP are in any case no known cases in which consumers had to deal with unauthorized access.
Initially published stories in the media that through the vulnerability of the printers in a fire could be put, but according to HP that was nonsense because a protection system against overheating regardless of the firmware works and on any laser printer of the brand would be present.