USN-2699-1: HPLIP vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• hplip - HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)

Details

Enrico Zini discovered that HPLIP used a short GPG key ID when downloading
keys from the keyserver. An attacker could possibly use this to return a
different key with a duplicate short key id and perform a machine-in-the-middle
attack on printer plugin installations.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04

• hplip-data - 3.15.2-0ubuntu4.2

Ubuntu 14.04

• hplip-data - 3.14.3-0ubuntu3.4

Ubuntu 12.04

• hplip-data - 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.5

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

References

• CVE-2015-0839