SUSE CVE-2013-6402

base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing HPLIP through 3.13.11 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/hp-pkservice.log temporary file...

Authorization Bypass

hplip is vulnerable to authorization bypass. The checkpermissionv1 function in base/pkit.py does not properly use D-Bus for communications with a polkit authority. A race condition in the PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject allows a local user to bypass access restrictions via a setuid or pkexec...

CVE-2013-4325

The checkpermissionv1 function in base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing HPLIP through 3.13.9 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race conditio...