Description
speechd 0.54 and earlier, with the Festival or rsynth speech synthesis package, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- SpeechD 0.1/0.2 - Privileged Command Execution EDB-21108 · local · Sep 11, 2001 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20010911 security alert: speechd from speechio.org mailing-list
- 3326 vdb-entry
- http://www.speechio.org/speechd.html
- speechd-execute-commands(7121) vdb-entry