Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing provides drivers for Hewlett-Packard printers and multifunction peripherals. It was found that the HP CUPS fax filter in HPLIP created a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack, overwriting arbitrary files 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 installed alongside the original hplip package introduced several problems to fax support; 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.