Description
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.
Published: 2010-11-05
Score: 6.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-3972 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.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:26:12.298Z

Reserved: 2010-10-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-3996

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-11-05T17:00:03.047

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-3996

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2010-09-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-3996 - Bugzilla

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