Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-530-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that the hpssd tool of hplip did not correctly handle shell meta-characters. A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary commands as the hplip user.
Affected
hplip vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-5208 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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