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Gentoo: GLSA 200411-04 High: Speedtouch USB Driver Escalation

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A vulnerability in the Speedtouch USB driver can be leveraged by local users to gain elevated privileges. Users are advised to update their drivers promptly.
A vulnerability in the Speedtouch USB driver can be exploited to allow local users to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Speedtouch USB driver: Privilege escalation vulnerability Date: November 02, 2004 Bugs: #68436 ID: 200411-04

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in the Speedtouch USB driver can be exploited to allow local users to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
Background ========= The speedtouch package contains a driver for the ADSL SpeedTouch USB modem.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-dialup/speedtouch < 1.3.1 >= 1.3.1
========== The Speedtouch USB driver contains multiple format string vulnerabilities in modem_run, pppoa2 and pppoa3. This ...

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