CVE-2001-0956

published 2001-09-11

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.

Priority P4 28 high 7.2 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC L Au N C C I C A C

EXPLOIT

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

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
centre_for_speech_technology_research	gentoo_linux	—	—
debian	festival	< festival 1.96~beta-6 (bookworm)	festival 1.96~beta-6 (bookworm)
speechio	speechd	<= 0.54	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv 7.2 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.2 LOW

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