CVE-2007-5208

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-10-11
CWE:
CWE-78
Bugzilla:
319921: CVE-2007-5208 hplip arbitrary command execution

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

hpssd in Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project (hplip) 1.x and 2.x before 2.7.10 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a from address, which is not properly handled when invoking sendmail.

Find out more about CVE-2007-5208 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (hplip) RHSA-2007:0960 2007-10-11

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