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Ubuntu: USN-7211-1 (CVE-2020-11867): Audacity vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 30, 2020
Added
Jan 17, 2025
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-audacity
Title
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