Ubuntu.comUB:CVE-2007-4074CVE-2007-4074
10 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.021 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.3%
The default configuration of Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR)
Festival 1.95 beta (aka 2.0 beta) on Gentoo Linux, SUSE Linux, and possibly
other distributions, is run locally with elevated privileges without
requiring authentication, which allows local and remote attackers to
execute arbitrary commands via the local daemon on port 1314, a different
vulnerability than CVE-2001-0956. NOTE: this issue is local in some
environments, but remote on others.
Bugs
- <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435445>
- <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466146>
- <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466796>
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| kees | not as serious as in Gentoo, Debian’s festival runs as nobody |
| jdstrand | in addition to running as nobody, it also does not start on boot by default (must edit the initscript) in dapper - gutsy (but does on hardy) fix would likely include documentation fixes with a big warning in the initscript |
| jstrand | fix not released for gutsy, as debian bug #435445 did not fully address the issue |
| jdstrand | hardy runs server by default (1.96~beta-5ubuntu1) marked hardy as fixed-- don’t start server by default, non-prvileged user and notes on using --server |
Related
10 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.021 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.3%