Link following in flite - CVE-2014-0027
Published: January 26, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42106
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0027
CWE-ID: CWE-59
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: www.speech.cs.cmu.edu
Affected software:
flite
flite
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The play_wave_from_socket function in audio/auserver.c in Flite 1.4 allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/awb.wav. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-0027
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127748.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127776.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/59
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:032
- http://www.osvdb.org/101948
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64791
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1048678