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.
Product
debian/audacity vulnerabilities
9 published CVES affecting debian/audacity, from public sources (CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV).
- Total
- 9
- Critical
- 0
- High
- 1
- Medium
- 5
- Low
- 1
- Unscored
- 2
- CISA KEV
- 0
Latest debian/audacity CVEs
Newest publication first
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LowCVSS 3.3 EPSS 0.48%
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DLA-1277-1 audacity - security update
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MediumCVSS 5.5 EPSS 1.1%
Audacity before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted MP2 file.
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MediumCVSS 5.5 EPSS 1.9%
Audacity before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure.
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MediumCVSS 5.0 EPSS 24.3%
The big2_toUtf8 function in lib/xmltok.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in the XML-Twig module for Perl, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with malformed UTF-8 sequences that trigger a buffer over-read, re...
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MediumCVSS 5.0 EPSS 27.9%
The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, PyXML, w3c-libwww, and other software, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an XML document with crafted UTF-8 sequences that trigger...
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HighCVSS 9.3 EPSS 16.6% Public exploit PoC
Stack-based buffer overflow in the String_parse::get_nonspace_quoted function in lib-src/allegro/strparse.cpp in Audacity 1.2.6 and other versions before 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a .gro file contain...
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Unknown
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MediumCVSS 5.0 EPSS 3.4%
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 lev...
Sources: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV and public exploit-reference metadata. Product matching comes from the published CVE records. A proof-of-concept means public code exists; it is not evidence of exploitation.