openSUSE Security Update : festival (openSUSE-SU-2010:0756-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50316

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

festival_server uses an unsafe LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Local users could exploit that to execute code as another user if that user runs festival_server. CVE-2010-3996 has been assigned to this issue.

Solution

Update the affected festival packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50316

File Name: suse_11_1_festival-101020.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/24/2010

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:festival, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:festival-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3996

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