Sebastian Krahmer discovered a buffer overflow in the SNMP discovery code of the HP Linux Printing and Imaging System, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Specially crafted SNMP replies could cause a buffer overflow in hplip's sane backend (CVE-2010-4267).

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:0154 :

Updated hplip packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate 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 printers and multifunction peripherals, and tools for installing, using, and configuring them.

A flaw was found in the way certain HPLIP tools discovered devices using the SNMP protocol. If a user ran certain HPLIP tools that search for supported devices using SNMP, and a malicious user is able to send specially crafted SNMP responses, it could cause those HPLIP tools to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running them. (CVE-2010-4267)

Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team for reporting this issue.

Users of hplip should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

New hplip packages are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue.

Updated hplip packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate 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 printers and multifunction peripherals, and tools for installing, using, and configuring them.

A flaw was found in the way certain HPLIP tools discovered devices using the SNMP protocol. If a user ran certain HPLIP tools that search for supported devices using SNMP, and a malicious user is able to send specially crafted SNMP responses, it could cause those HPLIP tools to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running them. (CVE-2010-4267)

Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer of the SuSE Security Team for reporting this issue.

Users of hplip should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Applied patch to fix CVE-2010-4267, remote stack overflow vulnerability (bug #670252).

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.

A flaw was found in the way certain HPLIP tools discovered devices using the SNMP protocol. If a user ran certain HPLIP tools that search for supported devices using SNMP, and a malicious user is able to send specially crafted SNMP responses, it could cause those HPLIP tools to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running them. (CVE-2010-4267)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201203-17 (HPLIP: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Two vulnerabilities have been found in HPLIP:
      The 'hpmud_get_pml()' function in pml.c contains a boundary error         which could cause a stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2010-4267).
      The 'send_data_to_stdout()' function in hpcupsfax.cpp creates         insecure temporary files (CVE-2011-2722).
  Impact :

    A remote attacker might send specially crafted SNMP reponses, possibly       resulting in execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service       condition. Furthermore, a local attacker could perform symlink attacks to       overwrite arbitrary files.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that HPLIP incorrectly handled certain long SNMP responses. A remote attacker could send malicious SNMP replies to certain HPLIP tools and cause them to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in hplip :

A flaw was found in the way certain HPLIP tools discovered devices using the SNMP protocol. If a user ran certain HPLIP tools that search for supported devices using SNMP, and a malicious user is able to send specially crafted SNMP responses, it could cause those HPLIP tools to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running them (CVE-2010-4267).

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The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Specially crafted SNMP replies could cause a buffer overflow in hplip's sane backend (CVE-2010-4267). This has been fixed.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
51817	Debian DSA-2152-1 : hplip - buffer overflow	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	1/31/2011	1/4/2021	high
53730	openSUSE Security Update : hplip (openSUSE-SU-2011:0068-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/5/2011	1/14/2021	high
68181	Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : hplip (ELSA-2011-0154)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/12/2013	1/14/2021	high
69431	Slackware 12.1 / 12.2 / 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / current : hplip (SSA:2013-233-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	8/22/2013	1/14/2021	high
51563	RHEL 5 / 6 : hplip (RHSA-2011:0154)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	1/18/2011	1/14/2021	high
51681	Fedora 13 : hplip-3.10.9-14.fc13 (2011-0525)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/27/2011	1/11/2021	high
60937	Scientific Linux Security Update : hplip on SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	8/1/2012	1/14/2021	high
58382	GLSA-201203-17 : HPLIP: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	3/19/2012	1/6/2021	high
51673	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : hplip vulnerability (USN-1051-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	1/26/2011	9/19/2019	high
51805	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : hplip (MDVSA-2011:013)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	1/28/2011	1/6/2021	high
75525	openSUSE Security Update : hplip (openSUSE-SU-2011:0068-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/13/2014	1/14/2021	high
53413	CentOS 5 : hplip / hplip3 (CESA-2011:0154)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	4/15/2011	1/4/2021	high
51661	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : hplip (SAT Patch Number 3735)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/24/2011	1/14/2021	high
51680	Fedora 14 : hplip-3.10.9-14.fc14 (2011-0524)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/27/2011	1/11/2021	high

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