CVE-2014-0027
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
3.3
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.4-release-8 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.4-release-8 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.4-release-8 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.4-release-8 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.4-release-8 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| cmu | flite | 1.4 | |
References
- 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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0027
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.