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GLSA-200710-26 : HPLIP: Privilege escalation

high Nessus Plugin ID 27558

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200710-26 (HPLIP: Privilege escalation)

 Kees Cook from the Ubuntu Security team discovered that the hpssd daemon does not correctly validate user-supplied data before passing it to a 'popen3()' call.
 Impact :

 A local attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request to the hpssd daemon to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running hpssd, usually root.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All HPLIP users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose 'net-print/hplip'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200710-26

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27558

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200710-26.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 10/25/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:hplip, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2007

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Core Impact

Metasploit (HPLIP hpssd.py From Address Arbitrary Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5208

CWE: 20

GLSA: 200710-26