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Re:Attacking Unix Systems via Cups, Part I by bonzini on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:31PM (#41662999)
OpenSUSE

But it looks like cups-browsed is only needed on the Internet; locally you only need mDNS.

Re:Attacking Unix Systems via Cups, Part I by tsimionescu on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:48AM (#41667091)
mDNS doesn't allow the printer to register itself to your system, which is the (highly dubious!) purpose of cups-browsed.
Re:Attacking Unix Systems via Cups, Part I by yrro on Friday September 27, 2024 @11:52AM (#41672060)
Modern cups discovered printers via mDNS and does indeed automatically create temporary destinations for them. This only works with "IPP Everywhere" printers which are 'driverless', i.e., the risk of doing this is limited since there's no printer model-specific software that needs to be run on the local machine to print to a remote printer, as opposed to the legacy protocol implemented (apparently unsafely!) by cups-browsed.