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<glsa id="200411-04">
  <title>Speedtouch USB driver: Privilege escalation vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability in the Speedtouch USB driver can be exploited to allow
    local users to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">speedtouch</product>
  <announced>November 02, 2004</announced>
  <revised>November 02, 2004: 01</revised>
  <bug>68436</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-dialup/speedtouch" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.3.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.3.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The speedtouch package contains a driver for the ADSL SpeedTouch USB modem.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A malicious local user could exploit this vulnerability by causing a buffer
    overflow, and potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code with
    escalated privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Speedtouch USB driver users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dialup/speedtouch-1.3.1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0834">CAN-2004-0834</uri>
    <uri link="http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/index.php?/news.en.html">Speedtouch Project News Announcements</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:13:35 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:15:40 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue,  2 Nov 2004 13:27:33 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>