CVE-2007-6061

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Audacity 1.3.2 creates a temporary directory with a predictable name without checking for previous existence of that directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (recording deadlock) by creating the directory before Audacity is run. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to delete arbitrary files or directories via a symlink attack.

Affected products

Audacityteam Audacity: 1.3.2

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199751
http://secunia.com/advisories/27841
http://secunia.com/advisories/29206
http://secunia.com/advisories/30191
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-03.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:074
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26608
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4025
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00075.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00087.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199751
http://secunia.com/advisories/27841

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