CVE-2007-6061 Information

Description

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 arbitrary files or directories via a symlink attack.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199751 http://secunia.com/advisories/27841 http://secunia.com/advisories/29206 http://secunia.com/advisories/30191 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-03.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:074 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26608 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4025 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00075.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00087.html