MGASA-2015-0336

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    MGASA-2015-0336

    Published: 8 Sept 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-0839

    Summary: Updated hplip packages fix CVE-2015-0839

    Details: Updated hplip packages fix security vulnerability: It was reported that the hp-plugin utility, included in the hplip package, downloads a binary driver and verifies it via a key specified by the key's short ID. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to generate a key with the expected short ID and trick a user into downloading a malicious binary (CVE-2015-0839).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0336.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16498, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162442.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: hplip

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/hplip?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.9-4.1.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High