Mageia 2021-0001: audacity security update

Date 02 Jan 2021

Category Mageia Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Audacity through 2.3.3 saves temporary files to /var/tmp/audacity-$USER by default. After Audacity creates the temporary directory, it sets its permissions to 755. Any user on the system can read and play the temporary audio .au files located there (CVE-2020-11867).

MGASA-2021-0001 - Updated audacity package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 02 Jan 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0001.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-11867

Audacity through 2.3.3 saves temporary files to /var/tmp/audacity-$USER by
default. After Audacity creates the temporary directory, it sets its
permissions to 755. Any user on the system can read and play the temporary
audio .au files located there (CVE-2020-11867).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27850
- https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./thread/MIO5YFJW5KODA2NDQAAMKAOM57Z2ZM4W/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11867

SRPMS:
- 7/core/audacity-2.3.1-1.2.mga7