Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-4074 - Configuration vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 10.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
centre-for-speech-technology-research
suse
CWE-16
critical
nessus

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.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_FESTIVAL-4378.NASL
    descriptionThe festival daemon runs as root. The default config doesn
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id29424
    published2007-12-13
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/29424
    titleSuSE 10 Security Update : festival (ZYPP Patch Number 4378)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The text description of this plugin is (C) Novell, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(29424);
      script_version ("1.16");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:29");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2007-4074");
    
      script_name(english:"SuSE 10 Security Update : festival (ZYPP Patch Number 4378)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "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)"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-4074.html"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Apply ZYPP patch number 4378.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
      script_cwe_id(16);
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:suse:suse_linux");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/09/20");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/12/13");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
      script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) exit(0, "Local checks are not enabled.");
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release")) exit(0, "The host is not running SuSE.");
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) exit(1, "Could not obtain the list of installed packages.");
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) exit(1, "Failed to determine the architecture type.");
    if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") exit(1, "Local checks for SuSE 10 on the '"+cpu+"' architecture have not been implemented.");
    
    
    flag = 0;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLED10", sp:1, reference:"festival-1.95-25.9")) flag++;
    if (rpm_check(release:"SLES10", sp:1, reference:"festival-1.95-25.9")) flag++;
    
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_hole(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else exit(0, "The host is not affected.");
    
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idSUSE_FESTIVAL-4377.NASL
    descriptionThe festival daemon runs as root. The default config doesn
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id27520
    published2007-10-19
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/27520
    titleopenSUSE 10 Security Update : festival (festival-4377)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
    
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from openSUSE Security Update festival-4377.
    #
    # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(27520);
      script_version ("1.13");
      script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/10/25 13:36:29");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2007-4074");
    
      script_name(english:"openSUSE 10 Security Update : festival (festival-4377)");
      script_summary(english:"Check for the festival-4377 patch");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "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)."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected festival packages."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
      script_cwe_id(16);
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:festival");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:festival-devel");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2007/09/20");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/10/19");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
      script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("global_settings.inc");
    include("rpm.inc");
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
    if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
    if (release !~ "^(SUSE10\.1|SUSE10\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "10.1 / 10.2", release);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.1", reference:"festival-1.95-25.9") ) flag++;
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.1", reference:"festival-devel-1.95-25.9") ) flag++;
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.2", reference:"festival-1.96-21") ) flag++;
    if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE10.2", reference:"festival-devel-1.96-21") ) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
      else security_hole(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "festival / festival-devel");
    }