gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200707-10.xml

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<glsa id="200707-10">
  <title>Festival: Privilege elevation</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in Festival, allowing for a local
    privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">festival</product>
  <announced>July 25, 2007</announced>
  <revised>July 25, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>170477</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-accessibility/festival" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.95_beta-r4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.95_beta-r4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Festival is a text-to-speech accessibility program.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    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.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A local attacker could gain root privileges by connecting to the daemon
    and execute arbitrary commands.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    Set a password in the configuration file /etc/festival/server.scm by
    adding the line: (set! server_passwd password)
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Festival users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-accessibility/festival-1.95_beta-r4&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references/>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:41:45 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:25:25 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>