First published: Mon Jan 06 2014(Updated: )
It was found that flite, a speech synthesis engine (text-to-speech), insecurely used a temporary file. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file accessible to the user running flite, or possibly obtain sensitive information as the temporary file may contain text-to-speech output (screen contents). Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Cmu Flite | =1.4 |
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CVE-2014-0027 has been classified as a moderate severity vulnerability.
To fix CVE-2014-0027, upgrade to flite version 1.4 or later where the vulnerability is addressed.
Users of flite version 1.4 are affected by CVE-2014-0027.
No, CVE-2014-0027 can only be exploited by a local attacker.
CVE-2014-0027 can facilitate symbolic link attacks to modify arbitrary files or expose sensitive information.