USN-1956-1: HPLIP vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.04
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• hplip - HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)

Details

It was discovered that HPLIP was using polkit in an unsafe manner. A local
attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass intended polkit
authorizations.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04

• hplip - 3.13.3-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.10

• hplip - 3.12.6-3ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• hplip - 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.2

Ubuntu 10.04

• hplip - 3.10.2-2ubuntu2.3

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-4325