Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.61413
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2008:169 (hplip)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to hplip announced via advisory MDVSA-2008:169. Marc Schoenefeld of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered a vulnerability in the hplip alert-mailing functionality that could allow a local attacker to elevate their privileges by using specially-crafted packets to trigger alert mails that are sent by the root account (CVE-2008-2940). Another vulnerability was discovered by Marc Schoenefeld in the hpssd message parser that could allow a local attacker to stop the hpssd process by sending specially-craftd packets, causing a denial of service (CVE-2008-2941). The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues. Affected: 2007.1, 2008.0, 2008.1, Corporate 4.0 Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2008:169 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.2
Cross-Ref:	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 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10136 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10136 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-2941 1020683 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020683 hplip-hpssd-dos(44440) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44440 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457052 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10636 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10636
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