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Re:Attacking Unix Systems via Cups, Part I by floren on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:16PM (#41662808)
Or any malicious user on the airport wifi. The compromise will linger until however many weeks later when you decide to print something...
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Re:Attacking Unix Systems via Cups, Part I by bremac on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:35PM (#41663050)
Keep in mind that you still need send a print job to the fake printer to trigger the exploit. If you send the job to your real printer, nothing happens.
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Re:Attacking Unix Systems via Cups, Part I by crote on Thursday September 26, 2024 @10:30PM (#41665702)
The exploit allows an attacker to overwrite your real printer with their fake printer.
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Re:Attacking Unix Systems via Cups, Part I by graemep on Friday September 27, 2024 @05:55AM (#41668275)
Not using the "WAN" attack if you are using a firewall config that stops that on public wifi.

I do not understand how the mDNS entry point works.

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