<?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>December 09, 2013</announced> <revised>December 09, 2013: 1</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 ">=app-accessibility/festival-2.1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3996">CVE-2010-3996</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:54:17 +0000">ackle</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 09 Dec 2013 05:41:22 +0000"> BlueKnight </metadata> </glsa>