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TITLE:
HPLIP hpssd Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31470

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31470/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
HPLIP 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/16077/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in hplip, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The security issue is caused due to an error within hpssd.py when
parsing certain requests. This can be exploited to crash the service
by sending specially crafted requests to the default port 2207/TCP.

Note: Another problem within the alert-mailing feature, which can be
abused to send alert emails via malicious requests, was also
reported.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.8.4 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Red Hat.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0818.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455235
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457052

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