Festival: Arbitrary code execution

Festival: Arbitrary code execution A vulnerability in Festival could result in arbitrary code execution, and privilege escalation. festival 2013-12-09 2013-12-09 386319 remote 2.1 2.1

Festival is a Text to Speech Engine from The Centre for Speech Technology Research.

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.

A local attacker can execute arbitrary a Trojan horse shared library, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Festival users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-accessibility/festival-2.1"

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