openSUSE 10 Security Update : festival (festival-4377)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 27520

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The festival daemon runs as root. The default config doesn't have a password set. A local attacker could therefore connect to the daemon to have commands executed as root (CVE-2007-4074).

Solution

Update the affected festival packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 27520

File Name: suse_festival-4377.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/19/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:festival, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:festival-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-4074

CWE: 16

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