CVE-2008-2940 (GCVE-0-2008-2940)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-08-14 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:21
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30683 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/31470 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020684 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/32792 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/31499 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455235 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/32316 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-08… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2008-08-12 00:00
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  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.