CVE-2010-3996

NameCVE-2010-3996
Descriptionfestival_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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
festival (PTS)buster1:2.5.0-3fixed
bullseye1:2.5.0-5fixed
bookworm1:2.5.0-9fixed
sid, trixie1:2.5.0-10fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
festivalsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- festival <not-affected> (From Lenny onwards we don't include the server component)

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