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
Statement: Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of hplip and hplip3 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.