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hplip — security advisory
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.
- Products
- hplip
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.8.6-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-2940
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2940
hplip
Fixed versions: 2.8.6-1
hplip
Fixed versions: 2.8.6-1
hplip
Fixed versions: 2.8.6-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:45.122737599Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 418706,
"published_at": "2008-08-14T20:41:00+00:00"
}