1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200707-10 / festival |
| Release Date | July 25, 2007 |
| Latest Revision | July 25, 2007: 01 |
| Impact | high |
| Exploitable | local |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| app-accessibility/festival | < 1.95_beta-r4 | >= 1.95_beta-r4 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #170477
A vulnerability has been discovered in Festival, allowing for a local privilege escalation.
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:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-accessibility/festival-1.95_beta-r4" |