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
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
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