Ubuntu Patches ‘Severe’ Security Flaw in CUPS

If you’ve cast a half-glazed eye over Linux social media feeds at some point in the past few days you may have caught wind that a huge Linux security flaw was about to be disclosed. And today it was: a remote code execution flaw affecting the CUPS printing stack used in most major desktop Linux distributions (including Ubuntu, and also Chrome OS). With a severity score of 9.9 it’s right at the edge of the most severe vulnerabilities possible. Scared? I am — and so we should be. This nasty flaw enables an attacker to run code (to do all
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