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Gentoo: GLSA 201312-06 Normal: Festival Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2013
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Fedora Security Notice 2023-45 discusses a critical vulnerability in OpenSSL's implementation and outlines necessary patches for contributors. Ensure your systems are secured promptly!
A vulnerability in Festival could result in arbitrary code execution, and privilege escalation.

Summary

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo code execution privilege escalation arbitrary execution normal severity Festival

Resolution

All Festival users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-accessibility/festival-2.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-3996 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3996

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201312-06
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Festival: Arbitrary code execution
Date: December 09, 2013
Bugs: #386319
ID: 201312-06

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo code execution privilege escalation arbitrary execution normal severity Festival

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Festival could result in arbitrary code execution, and privilege escalation.

Background

Festival is a Text to Speech Engine from The Centre for Speech Technology Research.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-accessibility/festival < 2.1 >= 2.1

Impact

===== A local attacker can execute arbitrary a Trojan horse shared library, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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