Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: cups security update

Updated CUPS packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Common UNIX Printing System CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIXR operating system...

PT-2004-3049 · Apple +1 · Cups +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: CUPS versions prior to 1.1.21rc1 Description: The issue allows attackers to bypass intended Access Control Lists ACLs due to the case-sensitive treatment of a Location directive in cupsd.conf. This can be exploited via a printer name containi...

Cracking OpenVMS passwords with John the Ripper

I have written a patch for John the Ripper http://www.openwall.com/john/ to allow cracking OpenVMS Vax and Alpha passwords. The patch is based on code from Shawn Clifford, Davide Casale and Mario Ambrogetti. The sources are in http://jl.gailly.net/security/john-VMS-patch.tar.gz A README file is a...