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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2013:0500-02 Low: HPLIP Bug Fix

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The latest HPLIP upgrade for Red Hat addresses several vulnerabilities and glitches, improving performance while maintaining a low severity risk.
Updated hplip packages that fix several security issues, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

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-driverspackage, 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix local attack low severity hplip update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2722 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0200 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
i386: hpijs-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-common-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-debuginfo-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-gui-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm libsane-hpaio-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: hpijs-3.12.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm hplip-3.12.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm hplip-common-3.12.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm hplip-debuginfo-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-debuginfo-3.12.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm hplip-gui-3.12.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm libsane-hpaio-3.12.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source:
i386: hpijs-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-common-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-debuginfo-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-gui-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm libsane-hpaio-3.12.4-4.el6.i686.rpm
ppc64: hpijs-3.12.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm hplip-3.12.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm hplip-common-3.12.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm hplip-debuginfo-3.12.4-4.el6.ppc.rpm hplip-debuginfo-3.12.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm hplip-gui-3.12.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6.ppc.rpm hplip-libs-3.12.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm libsane-hpaio-3.12.4-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
x86_64: hpijs-3.12.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm hplip-3.12.4-4.el6.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0500-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0500.html
Issue date: 2013-02-21

Topic

Updated hplip packages that fix several security issues, multiple bugs, andadd various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having lowsecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix local attack low severity hplip update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

683007 - hpaio is in /etc/sane.d/dll.d/hpaio

725830 - CVE-2011-2722 hplip: insecure temporary file handling

731900 - Update hplip to newer version for increased hardware support.

902163 - CVE-2013-0200 hplip: insecure temporary file handling flaws

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