Okay, who’s giving odds on this one coming anywhere close to living up to its billing?
The claims are well into the “I found a unicorn” territory, I’m tipping its either “If you misconfigure this, its unsafe”, or its a real vuln, and its significantly harder to exploit that they are claiming.
https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/
Definitely interesting
It supposedly affects all GNU/Linux systems, there’s no fix, existed for 10 years, severity of 9.9, but there’s an “easy workaround”.
I’m curious.easy workaround
Turn the power off?
Rj45 to 110v adapter is more funnerer.
Me too, I’m looking forward to the writeup.
If this is true (or at least plausible to the relevant people), the author of that Twitter post will probably be on the radar of any shady government agency worldwide. Not a nice situation to be in.
