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Fedora 18 : hplip-3.13.9-2.fc18 (2013-17112)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70504

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update brings in the latest upstream release and fixes a security issue with the way polkit is used for authentication.

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 hplip package.

See Also

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

http://www.nessus.org/u?3cd5bb58

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70504

File Name: fedora_2013-17112.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:hplip

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4325

BID: 62499

FEDORA: 2013-17112