Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) provides drivers for Hewlett-Packard (HP) printers and multifunction peripherals.
It was found that the HP CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) fax filter in HPLIP created a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack, overwriting arbitrary files accessible to a process using the fax filter (such as the hp3-sendfax tool). (CVE-2011-2722)
This update also fixes the following bug:
* Previous modifications of the hplip3 package to allow it to be installed alongside the original hplip package introduced several problems to fax support
for example, the hp-sendfax utility could become unresponsive.
These problems have been fixed with this update. (BZ#501834)
All users of hplip3 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.
Affected
hplip3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-2722 -
CVSS Base Score: 1.2
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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