Question Print Spooler Nightmare/Flaw/Vulnerability

[Fanatical Meat]

How do you know on a home Windows 10 system if it has been patched?

 

[pcgeek11]

How do you know on a home Windows 10 system if it has been patched?

It is contained in 2021-07 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 21H1 for x64-based systems (KB5004945). Dated 6 July .

Highlights

• Updates a remote code execution exploit in the Windows Print Spooler service, known as “PrintNightmare”, as documented in CVE-2021-34527.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...-of-band-44b34928-0a71-4473-aa22-ecf3b83eed0e

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Perfect thank you. I’ll check for the K update above.
I haven’t shit my machine off in a long time and a ton of updates loaded this morning. I wanted to ensure this was one of the updates but I couldn’t find the update number.

 

[pcgeek11]

Perfect thank you. I’ll check for the K update above.
I haven’t shit my machine off in a long time and a ton of updates loaded this morning. I wanted to ensure this was one of the updates but I couldn’t find the update number.

It's installing now on my system...

 

[Fanatical Meat]

fudge, I am all updated but that update hasn't hit my system yet