CVE-2010-3996

N/A Unknown
Published: November 05, 2010 Modified: April 29, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-10/msg00028.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44395
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642507
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-10/msg00028.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44395
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642507
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

10 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.3%
24th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

cstr