Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers
Toes@ani.social 4 days agoJust a heads up some of those old drivers are just encapsulated perl scripts with root access. Easy network target for bad actors.
Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers
Toes@ani.social 4 days agoJust a heads up some of those old drivers are just encapsulated perl scripts with root access. Easy network target for bad actors.
tal@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Interesting. I wonder if it’d be practical to containerize them by default.
Archer@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Oh my god please don’t make me have to debug docker or k8s printer drivers
tal@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I mean, you can use something like the lightweight containers generated by
firejail, where the program just lacks write permission to the filesystem or network access, stuff like that.