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Fedora 7 : hplip-1.7.4a-6.fc7 (2007-2527)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27776

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a vulnerability in the hpssd daemon.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329111

http://www.nessus.org/u?830d7ca8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27776

File Name: fedora_2007-2527.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:hpijs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:hplip, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:hplip-gui, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libsane-hpaio, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:hplip-debuginfo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2007

Exploitable With

CANVAS (D2ExploitPack)

Core Impact

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

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5208

BID: 26054

CWE: 20

FEDORA: 2007-2527