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Gentoo festival Privilege Escalation
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA26229
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Release Date:
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2007-07-26
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Last Update:
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2007-07-31
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Popularity:
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5,841 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Gentoo Linux 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-4074
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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.
Solution:
Update to version "app-accessibility/festival-1.95_beta-r4" or later.
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Konstantine Shirow.
Changelog:
2007-07-31: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.announce/1307
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