CVE-2010-3996 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2010-10/msg00028.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44395 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642507