Gentoo: GLSA-200707-10 High: Festival Local Privilege Escalation

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200707-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Festival: Privilege elevation Date: July 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-accessibility/festival < 1.95_beta-r4 >= 1.95_beta-r4
========== 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.
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