No patches yet, can be mitigated, requires user interaction Final update After days of anticipation, what was billed as one or more critical unauthenticated remote-code execution vulnerabilities in all Linux systems was today finally revealed.

Linux CUPS vulnerabilities may allow remote code execution. Attackers could exploit these flaws via print jobs.

Several vulnerabilities can be chained together to remotely register rogue printers and execute commands as root on many Linux systems.

Yesterday details went public about a major security issue that was found in CUPS, the open source printing system.

A researcher has disclosed the details of an unpatched vulnerability that was expected to pose a serious threat to many Linux systems.

Some critical security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux printing system CUPS. Attackers can smuggle in code, for example.