Updated hplip3 packages that fix one security issue and one bug are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having lowsecurity impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing provides drivers forHewlett-Packard printers and multifunction peripherals. It was found that the HP CUPS fax filter inHPLIP created a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack, overwriting arbitraryfiles accessible to a process using the fax filter . This update also fixes the following bug:* Previous modifications of the hplip3 package to allow it to be install edalongside the original hplip package introduced several problems to faxsupport; for example, the hp-sendfax utility could become unresponsive. These problems have been fixed with this update. All users of hplip3 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.