Bug 195565 – net-print/hplip Arbitrary command execution (CVE-2007-5208)

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-10-12 01:04:26 UTC]

hplip's hpssd allows local (or remote, if configured) users to execute arbitrary commands as root.

Our current stable and the last release are vulnerable, I couldn't find a public repository. A patch is available at the URL.

[Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-10-12 01:07:09 UTC]

Denis and printing, please advise.

[Comment 2 Denis Dupeyron (RETIRED) 2007-10-12 09:11:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Denis and printing, please advise.

I'm having a real life emergency since a few days, but I'll send this at the top of my Gentoo TODO list. I should be able to look into this later today (not before 2000 UTC though).

I've had a quick look at the patch though, and it applies in a cleanish way on the 2.x series, but not on the 1.x series. So I'll have to manually create a patch for the 1.x stuff. This should be easy. About the security issue itself, it's far beyond my understanding so I'll have to trust the Red Hat people unless somebody else knows better.

Denis.

[Comment 3 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2007-10-17 19:25:28 UTC]

Any news on this one?

[Comment 4 Denis Dupeyron (RETIRED) 2007-10-18 13:07:15 UTC]

I've just fixed the new 2.x branch. I'm now proceeding to look into the old stuff.

Upstream says the fix will be in 2.7.10.

Denis.

[Comment 5 Denis Dupeyron (RETIRED) 2007-10-18 20:31:07 UTC]

Old 1.x branch is now cleaned-up and fixed too. Security, feel free to stabilize hplip-1.7.4a-r2 and close this bug whenever you want.

Denis.

[Comment 6 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2007-10-18 20:36:09 UTC]

Thx Denis.

Arches please test and mark stable. Target keywords are:

hplip-1.7.4a-r2.ebuild:KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc ~ppc64 x86"

[Comment 7 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-10-19 21:03:43 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 8 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2007-10-20 20:02:10 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 9 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) 2007-10-21 20:27:27 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 10 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2007-10-21 20:39:45 UTC]

GLSA request filed.

[Comment 11 Denis Dupeyron (RETIRED) 2007-10-21 21:40:36 UTC]

Old ebuild removed after stabilization. All that's left in the tree is now clean.

Denis.

[Comment 12 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) 2007-10-24 22:16:33 UTC]

GLSA 200710-26, thanks everybody!