CVE-2008-2940

CVE-2008-2940 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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