Small praise for modern compilers - A case of Ubuntu printing vulnerability that wasn’t

By Aleksandar Nikolich Earlier this year, we conducted code audits of the macOS printing subsystem, which is heavily based on the open-source CUPS package. During this investigation, IPP-USB protocol caught our attention. IPP over USB specification defines how printers that are available over USB...

BSA-2017-336

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-336 Component : zlib Revision : 2.0: Interim There was a small optimization for PowerPCs to pre-increment a pointer when accessing a word, instead of post-incrementing. This required prefacing the loop with a decrement of the pointer, possibly pointing before the...