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Speedtouch USB Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA12916
Release Date: 2004-10-21
Popularity: 7,621 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Speedtouch USB driver 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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.

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