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Speedtouch USB Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12916
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Release Date:
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2004-10-21
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Popularity:
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6,774 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Speedtouch USB driver 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0834
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Speedtouch USB Driver, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified format string errors in "modem_run", "pppoa2", and "pppoa3".
Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
Solution:
Update to version 1.3.1.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfi...ackage_id=28264&release_id=271734
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Max Vozeler.
Original Advisory:
http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/news.en.html
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