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by tsimionescu 632 days ago
This is a misunderstanding of the vulnerability. The problem isn't with the print server. It is with the printer discovery mechanism, cups-browsed. That is the service that listens on the entire network, because it's designed so that LAN printers can advertise themselves to your system.
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In that case one can disable it until it is patched assuming there isn't a udev rule that re-enables it. I stay clear of systemd these days so I don't know.