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Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaws in CUPS Printing Systems (blog.qualys.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Toes@ani.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Toes@ani.social 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Basically an unauthenticated perl interpreter with root open to the network by default in most configurations across a couple decades.

It's about as bad as it can be?

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Compared to the original claim that it was kernel level and spread across literally everything?

No, no its not as bad as it was originally claimed.

Is it bad? Yes. Is it kernel level bad? No. It can easily be mitigated before a fix is out by blocking 631 and dns-sd traffic. It is not as bad as it was claimed to be.

[–] progandy 1 points 1 month ago

Is it common for cups to run as root? It should have its own user, but that is still not good.