Bug 1038434 (CVE-2013-6427)
| Summary: | CVE-2013-6427 hplip: insecure auto update feature | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Murray McAllister <mmcallis> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | jkurik, jpopelka, pfrields, twaugh, vdanen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2013-12-05 06:26:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Statement: Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of hplip and hplip3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. |
It was found that an upgrade script in hplip downloaded a file (via HTTP) and then executed it. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on a hplip client system. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Fedora the hplip RPM spec file removes the affected file at build time, for example: rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/hplip/upgrade.* rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/hp-upgrade As such, the affected functionality is not shipped in the binary RPMs. The versions of hplip and hplip3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 also do not contain the affected functionality. References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853405 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/05/2