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Intel® Smart Sound Technology vulnerabilities

Intel ID:
 INTEL-SA-00163
Product family:
 Intel® Smart Sound Technology
Impact of vulnerability:
 Escalation of Privilege
Severity rating:
 Important
Original release:
 07/24/2018
Last revised:
 07/24/2018
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Summary:

CVE-2018-3666
•    Driver module in Intel Smart Sound Technology before version 9.21.00.3541 potentially allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code as administrator via a non-paged pool overflow.
•    7.5 High CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2018-3670
•    Driver module in Intel Smart Sound Technology before version 9.21.00.3541 potentially allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code as administrator via a buffer overflow.
•    7.5 High CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2018-3672
•    Driver module in Intel Smart Sound Technology before version 9.21.00.3541 potentially allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code as administrator via a system calls.
•    7.5 High CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products:

Intel® Smart Sound Technologies before version 9.21.00.3541

Recommendations:

Intel recommends users check with system manufacturers for Intel® Smart Sound Technologies version 9.21.00.3541 or later.

Acknowledgements:

These issues were reported by an Intel validation partner.

Revision History

Revision Date Description
1.0 07/24/2018 Initial Release
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CVE Name: CVE-2018-3666, CVE-2018-3670, CVE-2018-3672

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