USN-2699-1

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    USN-2699-1

    Published: 30 Jul 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: hplip vulnerability

    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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2699-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0839

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: hplip

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.14.3-0ubuntu3.4

    Affected versions

    3.13.9-1
    3.13.9-2
    3.13.11-1
    3.13.11-1ubuntu1
    3.13.11-2
    3.13.11-2.1

    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
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