From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 04:08:39 CDT

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TITLE:
CUPS Logfile User Credentials Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12736

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12736/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
CUPS 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/921/

DESCRIPTION:
Gary Smith has reported a vulnerability in CUPS, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of sensitive
information.

The problem is that user credentials are stored in the error_log log
file when printing to a shared printer via Samba.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in the CVS repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Gary Smith

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L920

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