Audacity symbolic links vulnerability

Unsafe temporary files creation...

[ GLSA 200803-03 ] Audacity: Insecure temporary file creation

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Audacity: Insecure temporary file creation

Background Audacity is a free cross-platform audio editor. Description Viktor Griph reported that the "AudacityApp::OnInit" method in file src/AudacityApp.cpp does not handle temporary files properly. Impact A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct symlink attacks to delete...

CVE-2007-6061

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service recording deadlock by creating the directory before Audacity is run. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to delete...

Design/Logic Flaw

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service recording deadlock by creating the directory before Audacity is run. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to delete...

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6061

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service recording deadlock by creating the directory before Audacity is run. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to delete...

CVE-2007-6061

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service recording deadlock by creating the directory before Audacity is run. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to delete...

CVE-2007-6061

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service recording deadlock by creating the directory before Audacity is run. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to delete...

CVE-2007-6061

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service recording deadlock by creating the directory before Audacity is run. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to delete...

CVE-2007-6061

CVE-2007-6061 affects Audacity 1.3.2, where Audacity creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for prior existence, allowing local users to trigger a denial of service (recording deadlock) and potentially delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack. Connected advisori...

CVE-2007-6061

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service recording deadlock by creating the directory before Audacity is run. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to delete...

CVE-2007-6061: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service recording deadlock by creating the directory before Audacity is run. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to delete...

MDKA-2006:054 : audacity

For the French locale, menu items which contained accented characters do not show up in the Audacity sound editor. This is because the French translation file was not in the correct character encoding. This issue is corrected in the updated packages. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script...