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CVE-2008-2940

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2008-11-29	hplip -- hpssd Denial of Service

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CVE-2008-2940 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2008-2940
Phase	Assigned(20080630)

Description

The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1.6.7 allows local users to gain privileges and send e-mail messages from the root account via vectors related to the setalerts message, and lack of validation of the device URI associated with an event message.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455235
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2008:169
REDHAT	RHSA-2008:0818
SUSE	SUSE-SR:2008:021
UBUNTU	USN-674-1
UBUNTU	USN-674-2
BID	30683
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10136
SECTRACK	1020684
SECUNIA	31470
SECUNIA	31499
SECUNIA	32316
SECUNIA	32792
XF	hplip-alertmailing-privilege-escalation(44441)