UBUNTU-CVE-2010-3996

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2010-3996

    Published: 5 Nov 2010Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2010-3996

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-3996, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3996

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: festival

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/festival@1:2.1~release-6ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:2.1~release-6ubuntu1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High