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Fedora 33 Audacity Moderate Data Exposure Vulnerability 2021-8aaccdb5f

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Explore the recent moderate-level security advisory for the Audacity application on Fedora, addressing critical issues and updates.
Use system lv2, midi

Summary

Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to

record sounds directly or to import files in various formats. It features

a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and

unlimited undo. The GUI was built with wxWidgets and the audio I/O

supports PulseAudio, OSS and ALSA under Linux.

Use system lv2, midi. ---- Explicitly specify system ogg. ---- Switch from

Python 2->3 ---- 2.4.2

* Thu Feb 11 2021 Gwyn Ciesla - 2.4.2-4

- Use system for lv2 and midi.

* Tue Feb 9 2021 Gwyn Ciesla - 2.4.2-3

- Specify system ogg.

* Tue Feb 9 2021 Gwyn Ciesla - 2.4.2-2

- Python2 -> 3

* Sat Jan 2 2021 Brandon Nielsen - 2.4.2-1

- Cleanup unsupported Fedora version conditionals

- Update to 2.4.2 / cmake

- Make manual own its own folder

- Get rid of realname definition

- Reviewed, tested, committed, and built by Gwyn Ciesla, gwync@protonmail.com

[ 1 ] Bug #1807893 - audacity requires Python 2 to build

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1807893

[ 2 ] Bug #1836497 - audacity-2.4.2 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1836497

[ 3 ] Bug #1904016 - CVE-2020-11867 audacity: insecure use of temporary directory leads to information disclosure [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1904016

[ 4 ] Bug #1918547 - The audacity package is very out of date, please update

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918547

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-8aaccdbb5f' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 33
Version: 2.4.2
Release: 4.fc33
Summary: Multitrack audio editor

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