CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-3996

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2010-11-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2010-11-05
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

festival_server in Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) Festival, probably 2.0.95-beta and earlier, places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory.

Affected configurations

• cstr festival (<= 2.0.95) • cstr festival 1.4.1 • cstr festival 1.4.2 • cstr festival 1.4.3 • cstr festival 1.95 • cstr festival 1.96

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-10/msg00028.html lists.opensuse.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44395 www.securityfocus.com
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642507 bugzilla.novell.com
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-10/msg00028.html lists.opensuse.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44395 www.securityfocus.com
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642507 bugzilla.novell.com