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Maybe less exciting, but still terrible for almost anyone running a Linux desktop/laptop, especially those that expect it's safer than a Windows desktop. And it's a really bad look both for the developers of CUPS, and for most Linux distros, including RHEL, that just enabled this printer discovery backdoor by default without any mitigations in place.


On RHEL it's installed but it's not enabled by default.




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