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ELSA-2013-0500 Low: Oracle Linux hplip security, bug fix and enhancement update

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ELSA-2013-0500 Low: Oracle Linux hplip security, bug fix and enhancement update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/25/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/03/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) through 3.12.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/hpcupsfilterc_#.bmp, (2) /tmp/hpcupsfilterk_#.bmp, (3) /tmp/hpcups_job#.out, (4) /tmp/hpijs_#####.out, or (5) /tmp/hpps_job#.out temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2722.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-hpijs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-hplip
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-hplip-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-hplip-gui
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-hplip-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libsane-hpaio

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