<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <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>2007-07-25</announced> <revised count="01">2007-07-25</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 ">=app-accessibility/festival-1.95_beta-r4"</code> </resolution> <references/> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-07-25T09:41:45Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-07-25T21:25:25Z"> falco </metadata> </glsa>