ALPS ALPINE Touchpad Driver Vulnerabilities - Lenovo Support US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-31334

Potential Impact: Escalation of privilege

Severity: Medium

Scope of Impact: Industry-wide

CVE Identifier: CVE-2020-15596

Summary Description:

ALPS ALPINE reported a DLL search path vulnerability in the ALPS ALPINE Touchpad driver that could allow privilege escalation.

Mitigation Strategy for Customers (what you should do to protect yourself):

ALPS ALPINE recommends upgrading to the ALPS ALPINE Touchpad driver version (or newer) indicated for your model in the Product Impact section below.

Affected Products:

To download the version specified for your product below, follow these steps:

Navigate to the Drivers & Software support site for your product:

• Lenovo Products (sold worldwide, except in China): https://support.lenovo.com/
• Lenovo Products (sold in China): <https://newsupport.lenovo.com.cn/&gt;
• IBM-branded System x Legacy Products: <https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

1. Search for your product by name or machine type.
2. Click Drivers & Software on the left menu panel.
3. Click on Manual Update to browse by Component type.
4. Compare the minimum fix version for your product from the applicable product table below with the latest version posted on the support site.

Lenovo also offers tools to assist with update management as an alternative to the manual steps described above. Refer to the following for additional help:

PC Products and Software: <https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht504759&gt;

Server and Enterprise Software: <https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/lnvo-lxcaupd&gt; and <https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/lnvo-center&gt;

Click below links to view affected products:

IdeaPad/Lenovo Notebook

ThinkPad

References:

ALPS ALPINE: <https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jul/30&gt;

Revision History:

Revision

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Date

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Description

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6 | 2020-10-12 | Updated ThinkPad
5 | 2020-09-10 | Updated Lenovo Notebook and ThinkPad
4 | 2020-08-31 | Updated ThinkPad
3 | 2020-08-14 | Updated Lenovo Notebook
2 | 2020-08-13 | Updated Lenovo Notebook and ThinkPad

1

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2020-08-11

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Initial release

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