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hplip -- hpssd Denial of Service

Affected packages
		hplip	<	2.8.2_3

Details

VuXML ID	37940643-be1b-11dd-a578-0030843d3802
Discovery	2008-08-14
Entry	2008-11-29

Secunia reports:

A security issue has been reported in hplip, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS.

The security issue is caused due to an error within hpssd.py when parsing certain requests. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending specially crafted requests to the default port 2207/TCP.

[source]

References

Bugtraq ID	30683
CVE Name	CVE-2008-2940
CVE Name	CVE-2008-2941
URL	http://secunia.com/advisories/31470
URL	https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0818.html