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CUPS Detection

Fun with CUPS

CUPS listens on localhost:631 over HTTP and is not covered by Firefox port banning, so a remote page can probe for it. Grossman ties the CVE-2008-0047 CGI heap overflow to drive-by reach and gives a detection probe: an img pointing at localhost:631/images/navbar.gif whose onload and onerror handlers report whether CUPS is running.

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Fun with CUPS
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Jeremiah Grossman
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blog.jeremiahgrossman.com
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