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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201312-06">
  <title>Festival: Arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Festival could result in arbitrary code
    execution, and privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">festival</product>
  <announced>December 09, 2013</announced>
  <revised>December 09, 2013: 1</revised>
  <bug>386319</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-accessibility/festival" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Festival is a Text to Speech Engine from The Centre for Speech
      Technology Research.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>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.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker can execute arbitrary a Trojan horse shared library,
      potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution and privilege
      escalation.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Festival users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-accessibility/festival-2.1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3996">CVE-2010-3996</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:54:17 +0000">ackle</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 09 Dec 2013 05:41:22 +0000">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
</glsa>