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CVE-2010-3996

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Cstr Festival: through 2.0.95; 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.95, 1.96

References

• 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
• 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

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