CVE-2007-4074

NameCVE-2007-4074
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs435445

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
festival (PTS)jessie1:2.1~release-8fixed
stretch1:2.4~release-3fixed
buster1:2.5.0-3fixed
bullseye1:2.5.0-5fixed
bookworm1:2.5.0-9fixed
sid, trixie1:2.5.0-10fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
festivalsource(unstable)1.96~beta-6low435445

Notes

[etch] - festival <no-dsa> (Minor issue)

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