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    CVE-2008-2941

    The hpssd message parser in hpssd.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1.6.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (process stop) via a crafted packet, as demonstrated by sending "msg=0" to TCP port 2207.

    Published:Aug 12, 2008
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Aug 14, 2008
    EPSS Score:0.00036
    CVSS Score:4.9

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Hp
    Product
    Linux Imaging And Printing Project
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2013-6402 (CVSS 2.1) — base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) through 3.13.11 allows local users to overwrite arbitrar…
    CVE-2013-4325 (CVSS 6.9) — The check_permission_v1 function in base/pkit.py in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) through 3.13.9 does …
    CVE-2013-0200 (CVSS 1.9) — HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) through 3.12.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a sym…
    CVE-2012-6108 (CVSS 2.1) — HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) before 3.13.2 uses world-writable permissions for /var/log/hp and /var/l…
    CVE-2011-2722 (CVSS 1.2) — The send_data_to_stdout function in prnt/hpijs/hpcupsfax.cpp in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.x befo…
    CVE-2011-2697 (CVSS 6.8) — foomatic-rip-hplip in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.11.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrar…
    CVE-2010-4267 (CVSS 7.5) — Stack-based buffer overflow in the hpmud_get_pml function in io/hpmud/pml.c in Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging a…
    CVE-2008-2940 (CVSS 7.2) — The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1.6.7 allows local users to gain pri…

    References

    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00006.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31470
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31499
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32316
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32792
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1020683
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:169
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0818.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30683
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-1
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-2
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457052
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44440
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10636
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00006.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31470
    http://secunia.com/advisories/31499
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32316
    http://secunia.com/advisories/32792
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1020683
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:169
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0818.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30683
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-1
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-674-2
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457052
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44440
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10636

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