GLSA 201312-06: Festival: Arbitrary code execution

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Festival: Arbitrary code execution
Date:	12/09/2013
Bugs:	#386319
ID:	201312-06

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.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-accessibility/festival	< 2.1	>= 2.1	All supported architectures

Description

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.

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.

Resolution

All Festival users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-accessibility/festival-2.1"

References

CVE-2010-3996

Availability

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

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.