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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1051-1 January 25, 2011
hplip vulnerability
CVE-2010-4267
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Ubuntu 10.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

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

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
hplip 2.8.2-0ubuntu8.2

Ubuntu 9.10:
hplip 3.9.8-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
hplip 3.10.2-2ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 10.10:
hplip 3.10.6-1ubuntu10.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Sebastian Krahmer discovered that HPLIP incorrectly handled certain long
SNMP responses. A remote attacker could send malicious SNMP replies to
certain HPLIP tools and cause them to crash or possibly execute arbitrary
code.