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Disable Unused Services (CUPS for instance)?
Is there any way to turn off unused daemons in the ReadyNAS Duo? My IT security department has flagged my NAS as having a vulnerability in CUPS. That's fine, I don't use it as a print server, so I w...
Here is what the IT scan claims is vulnerable:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2002-1368
"Overview: Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding."
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2002-1368
"Overview: Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.14 through 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by causing negative arguments to be fed into memcpy() calls via HTTP requests with (1) a negative Content-Length value or (2) a negative length in a chunked transfer encoding."
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