I hope this goes without saying but please do not run this on machines you don’t own.

The good news:

  • the exploit seems to require user action

The bad news:

  • Device Firewalls are ineffective against this

  • if someone created a malicious printer on a local network like a library they could create serious issues

  • it is hard to patch without breaking printing

  • it is very easy to create printers that look legit

  • even if you don’t hit print the cups user agent can reveal lots of information. This may be blocked at the Firewall

TLDR: you should be careful hitting print

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    2 months ago

    Any self-respecting distro pushed an update to fix this days ago, so just updating (and restarting cups) will do. But if you don’t print anyway, you might as well disable it.