Gentoo Festival privilege escalation
| gentoo-festival-privilege-escalation (35606) |  High Risk |
Description:
The default Gentoo configuration of Festival could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges, caused by the daemon running as a root user and listening on the localhost for commands without using a password. By connecting to the daemon, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the vulnerable system with root privileges.
Platforms Affected:
- Gentoo, Linux
- SuSE, SuSE Linux
Remedy:
Refer to GLSA 200707-10 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For other distributions:
Contact your vendor for upgrade or patch information.
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
References:
- BID-25069: Festival Insecure Command Local Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-4074: The default configuration of Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) Festival 1.95 beta (aka 2.0 beta) on Gentoo Linux, SUSE Linux, and possibly other distributions, is run locally with elevated privileges without requiring authentication, which allows local and remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the local daemon on port 1314, a different vulnerability than CVE-2001-0956. NOTE: this issue is local in some environments, but remote on others.
- GLSA-200707-10: Festival: Privilege elevation
- SA26229: Gentoo festival Privilege Escalation
- SUSE-SR:2007:021: SUSE Security Summary Report
Reported:
Jul 25, 2007
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