usb printer security

Microsoft has fixed CVE-2026-55000, an Important-rated elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows USB Print Driver, through the July 14, 2026 security updates. Windows PCs and servers that handle locally connected USB printers should receive this month’s cumulative update, with...

CVE-2026-46167 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, dated May 28, 2026 by NVD and sourced from kernel.org, in which the USB printer driver could leak one byte of stale kernel heap memory through the LPGETSTATUS ioctl when queried by local software. The bug is small in the literal...