CVE-2008-2940

EPSS 0.04%

Published: 8/14/2008Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2940

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.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/hplipfrom 0, < 2.8.6-1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2940