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TITLE:
Gentoo festival Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26229

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26229/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/

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.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.announce/1307

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