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festival — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4074

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.

Products
festival
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1.96~beta-6
CVEs
CVE-2007-4074
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 15:46 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4074

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 Jul 2007, 17:30 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4074

festival

Fixed versions: 1.96~beta-6

festival

Fixed versions: 1.96~beta-6

festival

Fixed versions: 1.96~beta-6

Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-21T17:47:38.298030083Z",
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