National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2940
Original release date:08/14/2008
Last revised:03/03/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2008/Aug/1020684.html
"A local user can send specially crafted packets to cause the alert mailing function to execute arbitrary commands on the target system with root privileges.
Impact: A local user can obtain root privileges on the target system."
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455235
External Source: XF
Name: hplip-alertmailing-privilege-escalation(44441)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-674-1
External Source: BID
Name: 30683
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0818
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:169
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020684
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32792
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32316
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31499
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31470
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:021