Sebastian Krahmer reported a security issue was found in polkit (CVE-2013-4288 bz 1002375).

It was found that hplip was vulnerable to this issue as well, since it communicated to polkit authority using an unsafe DBUS interface.

This issue has been assigned CVE-2013-4325

foomatic-rip-hplip in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.11.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted FoomaticRIPCommandLine field in a .ppd file.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) before 3.13.2 uses world-writable permissions for /var/log/hp and /var/log/hp/tmp, which allows local users to delete log files via standard filesystem operations.

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/hpcupsjob#.out, (4) /tmp/hpijs#####.out, or (5) /tmp/hppsjob#.out temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2722.

A temporary file handling flaw was reported [1] in prnt/hpijs/hpcupsfax.cpp, the hplip HP CUPS filter. Because a predicatable temporary filename is used (/tmp/hpcupsfax.out), an attacker could use a symlink attack to overwrite an arbitrary file with the privileges of the process running the HP CUPS fax filter.

422 FILE fp; 423 fp = NULL; 424 if (iLogLevel & SAVEPCLFILE) 425 { 426 fp = fopen ("/tmp/hpcupsfax.out", "w"); 427 system ("chmod 666 /tmp/hpcupsfax.out"); 428 } 429 while ((i = read (fdFax, pTmp, iSize)) > 0) 430 { 431 write (STDOUTFILENO, pTmp, i); 432 if (iLogLevel & SAVEPCLFILE && fp) 433 { 434 fwrite (pTmp, 1, i, fp); 435 } 436 } 437 free (pTmp);

This flaw only exists in hplip 3.x and is not present in earlier versions of hplip.

[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/showbug.cgi?id=704608

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of hplip as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. A future update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (for hplip3) and 6 may address this flaw.