Debian DSA-1462-1 Critical: HPLIP Local Escalation Risk Detected
debian
January 13, 2008
Kees Cook discovered that the hpssd tool of the HP Linux Printing and
Imaging System (HPLIP) performs insufficient input sanitising of shell
meta characters, which may result i...
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.10-3etch1.
The old stable distribution (sarge) is not affected by this problem.
We recommend that you upgrade your hplip packages.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 909 d7045ceab044d91ae541bda2ea59bc00
Size/MD5 checksum: 10561620 01519018343978776fe4acfbdb7cb6df
Size/MD5 checksu...
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