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That doomsday critical Linux bug: It's CUPS. May lead to remote hijacking of devices (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 days ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This could be an issue on like a college campus or something. Under those circumstances one should definitely be running a host-based firewall though.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, and at that point your network should be enforcing client isolation too, which is also a mitigation for this specific issue in large, shared networks like a college campus, or office, or public Wi-Fi at wherever.