Fedora 8 : audacity-1.3.2-21.fc8 (2008-3456)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32198

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

A local attacker could exploit Audacity's insecure handling of the directory for temporary files to conduct symlink attacks in order to delete arbitrary files and directories with the privileges of the user running Audacity.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected audacity package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393251

http://www.nessus.org/u?86266117

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32198

File Name: fedora_2008-3456.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:audacity, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6061

FEDORA: 2008-3456