gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201312-06.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201312-06">
<title>Festival: Arbitrary code execution</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability in Festival could result in arbitrary code
execution, and privilege escalation.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">festival</product>
<announced>2013-12-09</announced>
<revised count="1">2013-12-09</revised>
<bug>386319</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-accessibility/festival" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Festival is a Text to Speech Engine from The Centre for Speech
Technology Research.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A vulnerability in Festival Server has an incorrect path in
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to place a Trojan horse shared
library in the current working directory.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker can execute arbitrary a Trojan horse shared library,
potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution and privilege
escalation.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Festival users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-accessibility/festival-2.1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3996">CVE-2010-3996</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-12-04T22:54:17Z">ackle</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-12-09T05:41:22Z">
BlueKnight
</metadata>
</glsa>