RHEL 6 : hplip (RHSA-2013:1274)

high Nessus Plugin ID 70013

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for hplip.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:1274 advisory.

- hplip: Insecure calling of polkit (CVE-2013-4325)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL hplip package based on the guidance in RHSA-2013:1274.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f7d0d148

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1274

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006674

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 70013

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-1274.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/20/2013

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4325

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hplip-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hplip-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hplip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hpijs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsane-hpaio, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hplip-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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: 9/19/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/23/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4325

BID: 62499

RHSA: 2013:1274