The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0500 advisory.

    The hplip packages contain the Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing     Project (HPLIP), which provides drivers for Hewlett-Packard printers and     multi-function peripherals.

    Several temporary file handling flaws were found in HPLIP. A local attacker     could use these flaws to perform a symbolic link attack, overwriting     arbitrary files accessible to a process using HPLIP. (CVE-2013-0200,     CVE-2011-2722)

    The CVE-2013-0200 issues were discovered by Tim Waugh of Red Hat.

    The hplip packages have been upgraded to upstream version 3.12.4, which     provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
    (BZ#731900)

    This update also fixes the following bugs:

    * Previously, the hpijs package required the obsolete cupsddk-drivers     package, which was provided by the cups package. Under certain     circumstances, this dependency caused hpijs installation to fail. This     bug has been fixed and hpijs no longer requires cupsddk-drivers.
    (BZ#829453)

    * The configuration of the Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) back end is     located in the /etc/sane.d/dll.d/ directory, however, the hp-check     utility checked only the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf file. Consequently,     hp-check checked for correct installation, but incorrectly reported a     problem with the way the SANE back end was installed. With this update,     hp-check properly checks for installation problems in both locations as     expected. (BZ#683007)

    All users of hplip are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which     fix these issues and add these enhancements.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 6 : hplip (RHSA-2013:0500)

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