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TITLE:
Audacity Insecure Temporary Files

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27841

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27841/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Audacity 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/12965/

DESCRIPTION:
Viktor Griph has reported a security issue in Audacity, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) or to delete arbitrary files and directories.

The security issue is caused due to the "AudacityApp::OnInit()"
method in src/AudacityApp.cpp handling temporary files in an insecure
manner. This can be exploited to delete arbitrary files and
directories via symlink attacks, or to cause a deadlock.

The security issue is reported in version 1.3.2. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Viktor Griph

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199751

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