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Ubuntu hplip Privilege Escalation Security Issue
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA33539
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Release Date:
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2009-01-14
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Last Update:
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2009-01-19
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Popularity:
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856 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Ubuntu Linux 7.10
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Description:
Ubuntu has acknowledged a security issue in hplip, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to the "postinst" script of the hplip package trying to change the permissions of user config files in an insecure manner, which can be exploited to gain root privileges when e.g. installing or updating the hplip package.
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