{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2008-08-12T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "hpssd of hplip allows unprivileged user to trigger alert mail",
    "id" : "455235",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455235"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-08-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0818",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "hplip-0:1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2940\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2940" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-2940",
  "csaw" : false
}