TITLE:
Speedtouch USB Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12916

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12916/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Speedtouch USB driver 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4124/

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/showfiles.php?group_id=32758&package_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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