CVE-2010-3996

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Summary

CVECVE-2010-3996
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-11-05 17:00:03 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cstr Festival 1.4.1 All All All
Application Cstr Festival 1.4.2 All All All
Application Cstr Festival 1.4.3 All All All
Application Cstr Festival 1.95 All All All
Application Cstr Festival 1.96 All All All
Application Cstr Festival All beta All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Access Denied af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.novell.com
Festival Server 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' Insecure Library Loading Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:019 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
openSUSE-SU-2010:0756-1 (moderate): festival security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:020 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
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