CVE-2025-24990

Oct. 14, 2025, 7:35 p.m.

7.8
High

Description

Microsoft is aware of vulnerabilities in the third party Agere Modem driver that ships natively with supported Windows operating systems. This is an announcement of the upcoming removal of ltmdm64.sys driver. The driver has been removed in the October cumulative update. Fax modem hardware dependent on this specific driver will no longer work on Windows. Microsoft recommends removing any existing dependencies on this hardware.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Microsoft
  • Agere Modem Driver
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-822
Untrusted Pointer Dereference
The product obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a microsoft agere_modem_driver / / / / / / / /

References

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24990

Tags

CWE-822
secure@microsoft.com
2025-10-14
CVE-2025-24990

CVSS Score

7.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Timeline

Published: Oct. 14, 2025, 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Oct. 14, 2025, 7:35 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

secure@microsoft.com

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