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..."The vulnerable driver ships with every version of Windows, up to and including Server 2025," Adam Barnett, lead software engineer at Rapid7, said. "Maybe your fax modem uses a different chipset, and so you don't need the Agere driver? Perhaps you've simply discovered email? Tough luck. Your PC is still vulnerable, and a local attacker with a minimally privileged account can elevate to administrator."...

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That’s still a lot of people that use that damn driver. I know at least in medical billing there’s always someone still using a damn fax machine. Almost every claim passes through fax technology at some point, although more and more of it is being emulated.

Where I work, it’s used mostly by emergency rooms that don’t want to use anything else.

This is not an environment where you want an exploit.

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Time to move that paper hybrid system to a full EHR.