Bug 68436 – net-dialup/speedtouch: privilege escalation vulnerability

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Luke Macken (RETIRED) 2004-10-21 12:36:11 UTC]

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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See also: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0834

[Comment 1 Luke Macken (RETIRED) 2004-10-21 12:38:17 UTC]

net-dialup,

please bump speedtouch to 1.3.1, thanks.

[Comment 2 Luke Macken (RETIRED) 2004-10-27 08:53:39 UTC]

We should have had this GLSA out yesterday at the latest.

net-dialup, please bump package.

[Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-10-27 09:31:15 UTC]

commited 1.3.1 as x86

[Comment 4 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2004-10-27 12:26:19 UTC]

amd64, hppa, alpha : please test and mark net-dialup/speedtouch-1.3.1 stable

[Comment 5 Bryan Østergaard (RETIRED) 2004-10-28 02:42:30 UTC]

Alpha stable.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2004-10-31 01:24:35 UTC]

hppa stable

[Comment 7 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2004-11-02 02:45:05 UTC]

stable now on amd64
i couldn't really test it as i don't have a adsl-modem, but it seems to work. sorry for the big delay

[Comment 8 Luke Macken (RETIRED) 2004-11-02 06:22:06 UTC]

GLSA 200411-04