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.
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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.
Title Windows Agere Modem Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Weaknesses CWE-822
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-14T22:20:23.978Z

Reserved: 2025-01-30T15:14:20.992Z

Link: CVE-2025-24990

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Updated: 2025-10-14T17:37:45.424Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-10-14T17:15:39.193

Modified: 2025-10-14T19:35:56.913

Link: CVE-2025-24990

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