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Mr Green

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Should we be worried about CUPS? [Solved]

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/ … disclosed/

Could not find anything on forums regarding this. maybe Arch is not affected but would like to know for peace of mind.

Forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere.....

Last edited by Mr Green (2024-09-28 09:00:37)

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Mr Green

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Re: Should we be worried about CUPS? [Solved]

It affects anybody who has CUPS installed and enabled.

Mitigation:

# systemctl disable --now cups-browsed

Background: https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/A … PS-Part-I/

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Mr Green

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Re: Should we be worried about CUPS? [Solved]

I like many use a wireless printer, have disabled stopped service...what about port 631 itself... Seems a bit like shutting the stable door when the horse is gone!

Anyway hopefully a fix soon.

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Re: Should we be worried about CUPS? [Solved]

The port would only be open if the service was listening

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Re: Should we be worried about CUPS? [Solved]

Just remove cups-browsed , it's only an optdep for cups and not required by anything.

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Mr Green

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Re: Should we be worried about CUPS? [Solved]

Thankfully not installed ;-)

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Re: Should we be worried about CUPS? [Solved]

browsed not installed, and avahi is masked.

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Re: Should we be worried about CUPS? [Solved]

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 2522178053
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 040325665f

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Mr Green

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Re: Should we be worried about CUPS? [Solved]

@ugjka I <3 Archlinux... a fix is on the way

Will mark thread as solved!

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