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CVE-2008-2940

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2008-08-12

Bugzilla:: 455235: CVE-2008-2940 hpssd of hplip allows unprivileged user to trigger alert mail

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2940 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (hplip)	RHSA-2008:0818	2008-08-12

Last Modified 2018-04-27T16:54:48+00:00

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