GLSA 200707-10: Festival: Privilege elevation

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Severity:	high
Title:	Festival: Privilege elevation
Date:	07/25/2007
Bugs:	#170477
ID:	200707-10

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been discovered in Festival, allowing for a local privilege escalation.

Background

Festival is a text-to-speech accessibility program.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
app-accessibility/festival	< 1.95_beta-r4	>= 1.95_beta-r4	All supported architectures

Description

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.

Impact

A local attacker could gain root privileges by connecting to the daemon and execute arbitrary commands.

Workaround

Set a password in the configuration file /etc/festival/server.scm by adding the line: (set! server_passwd password)

Resolution

All Festival users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-accessibility/festival-1.95_beta-r4"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-10.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.