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by bonzini 631 days ago
Disabling foomatic seems hard since the PPD can be distributed by the attacker and foomatic-rip is part of the cups-filter package. But yes, lp user + SELinux should be enough to make this not a 9.9.
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I actaully didn't realise that foomatic is part of cups-filters now?! On the other hand - it's only 'activated' by cups-browsed, if I understand correctly, at least by the currently disclosed set of vulnerabilities... let's hope an attacker can't craft a printer that will trick cups itself into configuring a dodgy print destination...