CVE-2007-4074 (GCVE-0-2007-4074)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-07-30 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:37
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/27271 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490465/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25069 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200707-10.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/26229 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170477 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2007-07-25 00:00
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