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RHEL 5 : hplip3 (RHSA-2013:0133)

low Nessus Plugin ID 63414

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated hplip3 packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) provides drivers for Hewlett-Packard (HP) printers and multifunction peripherals.

It was found that the HP CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) fax filter in HPLIP created a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack, overwriting arbitrary files accessible to a process using the fax filter (such as the hp3-sendfax tool). (CVE-2011-2722)

This update also fixes the following bug :

* Previous modifications of the hplip3 package to allow it to be installed alongside the original hplip package introduced several problems to fax support; for example, the hp-sendfax utility could become unresponsive. These problems have been fixed with this update.
(BZ#501834)

All users of hplip3 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0133

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2722

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 63414

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-0133.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/8/2013

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.2

Temporal Score: 0.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hplip3-common, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hplip3-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hplip3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hplip3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hpijs3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsane-hpaio3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hplip3-libs

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2722

BID: 48892

RHSA: 2013:0133