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CUPS Security Vulnerabilities

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the leaving-the-door-open dept.

Buck Naked writes "A slew of vulnerabilities was discovered in CUPS, from the advisory: 'Exploitation of multiple CUPS vulnerabilities allow local and remote attackers in the worst of the scenarios to gain root privileges...' The full advisory can be found at iDEFENSE."

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  1. Same shit, different daemon... by norculf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Common sense applies. The outside world doesn't need access to your printers, so firewall it and remember to patch it once in a while and you might be safe...

  2. Thanks CowboyNeal and poster by mao+che+minh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While many might chime in here saying this story would be better suited on security sites, I for one just heard about it now. I also plugged about 3 vulnerabilities because of it.

  3. CUPS is still the best solution by jaymzter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    CUPS, as far as I'm concerned is the killer app for printing in the *nix world. And just like another poster mentioned, why on earth would someone not be firewalling their printer? So once again it comes down to the competency of the system administrator. As for the MS trolls out there who will use this as an excuse to pan OSS, I'd like to point out that at least with CUPS and projects like it we won't have to wait for the maintainers to admit there's a problem, and then wait a month or more for a fix. This is news only in that security vulnerabilities need to be dissemenated as widely as possible

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