CVE-2016-10193: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

March 3, 2017 (updated March 8, 2017)

The gem passes user modifiable strings directly to a shell command. An attacker can execute malicious commands by modifying the strings that are passed as arguments to the speak, save, bytes and bytes_wav methods in the lib/espeak/speech.rb library.

References

github.com/dejan/espeak-ruby/issues/7

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