CVE-2008-2940 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-2940 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 414608 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:021, published Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:04:59 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:26:56 2023