A vulnerability has been discovered in Festival, allowing for a local privilege escalation.
Package | app-accessibility/festival on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 1.95_beta-r4 |
Unaffected versions | >= 1.95_beta-r4 |
Festival is a text-to-speech accessibility program.
Konstantine Shirow reported a vulnerability in default Gentoo configurations of Festival. The daemon is configured to run with root privileges and to listen on localhost, without requiring a password.
A local attacker could gain root privileges by connecting to the daemon and execute arbitrary commands.
Set a password in the configuration file /etc/festival/server.scm by adding the line: (set! server_passwd password)
All Festival users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-accessibility/festival-1.95_beta-r4"
Release date
July 25, 2007
Latest revision
July 25, 2007: 01
Severity
high
Exploitable
local
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