TITiberium·Sep 26, 2024
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-browsed/issues/36#issue... makes it sounds like most of them don't, and even if they do, it's sandboxed.
In Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPSOpenPrinting
cups-browsed
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OpenPrinting / cups-browsed
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What Hacker News says
5 sourceshttps://gist.github.com/stong/c8847ef27910ae344a7b5408d9840e...
Original report
Affected Vendor:
- OpenPrinting
Affected Product
- Several components of the CUPS printing system: cups-browsed, libppd, libcupsfilters and cups-filters.
Affected Version
- All versions <= 2.0.1 (latest release) and master.
Significant ICS/OT impact?
- no
Reporter
- Simone Margaritelli [evilsocket@gmail.com]
Vendor contacted?
- yes The vendor has been notified trough Github Advisories and all bugs have been confirmed:
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-browsed/security/adviso...
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcupsfilters/security/advi...
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libppd/security/advisories/G...
- https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/security/adviso...
I'm also in contact with the Canonical security team about these
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issues.
Description
- The vulnerability affects many GNU/Linux distributions:
[https://pkgs.org/download/cups-browsed]
Google ChromeOS:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/chromi...
Most BSDs:
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cups-browsed.conf&...
And possibly more.
<snip>
Review locking/multi-threading implementation
2 points · Open discussionIt's been obvious that it's CUPS as it was reported to affect linux, bsd, macos, etc.. The guy even forked the repo on github a couple weeks ago..
very lukewarm and over hyped imo.. it's a bit sad that the person spent weeks of their vacation on this..
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-browsed/issues/36
In A 9.9 CVE has been announced for Linux