I assume it's a nothingburger.
It's the only way to be sure.
Outside of ancient (see lpd) and esoteric (sending postscript files directly to postscript printers, sending emails to printers that are so enabled, or plugging a jumpdrive into a given printer because fuck networking), basically no. Even Samba which does the Windows server message block printer sharing shit really just uses CUPS under the hood. It feels kind of surprising that I've never seen an alternative, given that shit like SSHD has at least 3 variants (openssh, dropbear, busybox) that I can immediately think of off hand.
This dude is a straight up retard.
Truly a prophet
There is (what appears to be) industrial equipment with a remote desktop exposed to the public internet. You can check for yourself on e.g. Shodan
It's from the new print job creation specifically after chaining together everything else in the first place
I actually still remember heartbleed, people were making PSA's to update their information some decade ago.
Print is uniquely janky and retarded, so nobody wants to touch it.
Apple uses a forked version of CUPS. Does it affect them too?Before any Windows/Apple users come by and drop the expected:
"Well well well, who's got the secure OS now?"
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This affects you as well. 95% of webservers run on Linux. Linux is everywhere on the backend. If you see your IT guy stressed out at work, buy him a coffee.
