CVE-2001-0956

CVE-2001-0956 affects speechd 0.54 and earlier when used with the Festival or rsynth speech synthesis packages. The root issue is that shell metacharacters can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands, leading to full compromise of the affected system. The vulnerability is local-privilege relat...

security alert: speechd from speechio.org

this is my first post in this kin of thing so bare with me. there is a vulnerability in speechd that alllows you to run arbetrary code as the root user or whoever is running speechd hopefully not root!. it will only work if you are using rsynth, that is all i have tested, it may work on festival...

CVE-2001-0956

speechd 0.54 and earlier, with the Festival or rsynth speech synthesis package, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters...