| Name | CVE-2020-11867 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 976874 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| audacity (PTS) | jessie | 2.0.6-2 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 2.1.2-2 | vulnerable |
| buster | 2.2.2-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 2.4.2~dfsg0-5 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.2.4+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.7.0+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| audacity | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| audacity | source | (unstable) | 2.4.2~dfsg0-4 | | | 976874 |
Notes
[buster] - audacity <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - audacity <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/700