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Festival Insecure Command Local Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

References:

• Analysis of Debian's CVE-2007-4074 response (Tim Brown)
  
• app-accessibility/festival: privilege elevation with current default setup (Gentoo)
  
• Bug #130348 in festival (Ubuntu) (Ubuntu)
  
• Debian Bug report logs - #466146 (Debian)
  
• Vendor Homepage (The Center for Speech Technology Research)
  
• Medium security hole affecting Festival on Debian unstable/testing and Ubuntu Ha (Tim Brown )