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.

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: openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP1: festival, openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP2: festival, openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP3: festival

Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Security Fix(es): 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.(CVE-2010-3996)

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Affected: Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: festival

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.