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Speedtouch USB driver: Privilege escalation vulnerability

Package(s):Speedtouch USB driver CVE #(s):
Created:November 2, 2004 Updated:November 11, 2004
Description: The Speedtouch USB driver contains multiple format string vulnerabilities in modem_run, pppoa2 and pppoa3. This flaw is due to an improperly made syslog() system call. A malicious local user could exploit this vulnerability by causing a buffer overflow, and potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
Alerts:
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:130 2004-11-10
Gentoo 200411-04 2004-11-02
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