Oh, 100% agree he should have been fired or at least put on a PIP, but my HR dept is toothless.

This kind of stuff happens in big companies too, but you don’t see it because it’s not in a public mailing list. One of my teams had a developer who stood on tables to yell until his opinion was accepted, and one time when another developer wouldn’t back down, he threw a chair at them. That angry developer worked there for another 7 years until retirement, while many smart team members around him quit rather than continue dealing with him.

Not according to RedHat, who I trust a hell of a lot more than a Phoronix article that cites a blog post.

CVE-2024-47176 cups-browsed (7.5)

CVE-2024-47076 cups-filter libcupsfilters (8.2)

CVE-2024-47175 libppd cups cups-filter (7.7)

CVE-2024-47177 cups-filters foomatic (6.1)

Good news, it’s not a 9.9. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-response-openprinting-cups-vulnerabilities

Rotting in a Shinra prison for bombing a Mako reactor. In my defense, the new explosion graphics were great.