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audacity — security advisory
Audacity through 2.3.3 saves temporary files to /var/tmp/audacity-$USER by default. After Audacity creates the temporary directory, it sets its permissions to 755. Any user on the system can read and play the temporary audio .au files located there.
- Products
- audacity
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.4.2~dfsg0-4
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-11867
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Audacity through 2.3.3 saves temporary files to /var/tmp/audacity-$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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11867
audacity
Fixed versions: 2.4.2~dfsg0-4
audacity
Fixed versions: 2.4.2~dfsg0-4
audacity
Fixed versions: 2.4.2~dfsg0-4
Complete source record
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