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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201312-06">
+ <title>Festival: Arbitrary code execution</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in Festival could result in arbitrary code
+ execution, and privilege escalation.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">festival</product>
+ <announced>2013-12-09</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2013-12-09</revised>
+ <bug>386319</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-accessibility/festival" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Festival is a Text to Speech Engine from The Centre for Speech
+ Technology Research.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>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.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A local attacker can execute arbitrary a Trojan horse shared library,
+ potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution and privilege
+ escalation.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All Festival users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-accessibility/festival-2.1"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3996">CVE-2010-3996</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-12-04T22:54:17Z">ackle</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-12-09T05:41:22Z">
+ BlueKnight
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>