CVE-2008-2940 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31470 http://secunia.com/advisories/31499 http://secunia.com/advisories/32316 http://secunia.com/advisories/32792 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020684 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:169 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0818.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30683 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455235 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44441 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10136