CVE ID:	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.
Test IDs:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61956
Cross References:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2940 1020684 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020684 30683 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30683 31470 http://secunia.com/advisories/31470 31499 http://secunia.com/advisories/31499 32316 http://secunia.com/advisories/32316 32792 http://secunia.com/advisories/32792 MDVSA-2008:169 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:169 RHSA-2008:0818 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0818.html SUSE-SR:2008:021 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00006.html USN-674-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-1 USN-674-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-2 hplip-alertmailing-privilege-escalation(44441) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44441 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455235 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455235 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10136 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10136