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Gentoo: 200410-06 Normal: CUPS Authentication Leak Exposure

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CUPS exposes confidential data to logs while enabling remote print jobs. Update immediately to protect user credentials!
CUPS leaks information about user names and passwords when using remote printing to SMB-shared printers which require authentication.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: CUPS: Leakage of sensitive information Date: October 09, 2004 Bugs: #66501 ID: 200410-06

Synopsis ======= CUPS leaks information about user names and passwords when using remote printing to SMB-shared printers which require authentication.
Background ========= The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is a cross-platform print spooler.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-print/cups <= 1.1.20-r2 *>= 1.1.20-r3 == 1.1.21 >= 1.1.21-r1
========== When printing to a SMB-shared printer requiring authentication, CUPS leaks the user name and passw...

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