Bug#976874: audacity: CVE-2020-11867

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: audacity
Version: 2.4.2~dfsg0-3
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for audacity.

CVE-2020-11867[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-11867
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11867
[1] https://salvatoresecurity.com/the-many-perils-of-tmp/
[2] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179449

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore