Medium security hole affecting Festival on Debian unstable/testing and Ubuntu Hardy Heron

It has been recently been identified that the Festival text to speech server
was vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution. Further research
indicated that this vulnerability has already been reported as a local
privilege escalation against both the Gentoo and SuSE GNU/Linux distributions
and had assigned CVE-2007-4074. The remote form of this vulnerability was
originally identified in the default configuration of Festival 1.96~beta-5 as
distributed in Debian unstable but Ubuntu Hardy Heron was also affected. Both
Debian and Ubuntu have since released patches to resolve this flaw. An
advisory for this flaw which provides further information is attached. A
short analysis of Debian's response can be found at
http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/blog.php?id=68.

Cheers,
Tim

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Tim Brown
<mailto:timb_at_nth-dimension.org.uk>
<http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/>

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