Intrepid Beta missing CUPS service in Gnome Services Administration Tool
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cups (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: system-services
Due to this being a default open port on Ubuntu especially as no firewall is enabled/configured by default I have included it as a security vulnerability. (I have seen a hacker spew several hundred pages of ... well I can't mention what the picture was but needless to say no firewall rules and a printing service can be entertaining but none the less a vulnerability).
On Ubuntu 8.10 Beta CUPS printing service is enabled by default. On Previous versions of Ubuntu there was always a check box to disable the service in System/
That's a bug in services-admin probably related to the changed package name from cupsys to cups in Intrepid, reassigning