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Gentoo festival Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA26229
Release Date: 2007-07-26
Last Update: 2007-07-31
Popularity: 7,013 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Gentoo has acknowledged a vulnerability in the festival package, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the festival daemon running as root user and listening for commands from localhost without requiring a password. This can be exploited to execute commands with root privileges.

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