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Vigil@nce - Audacity: file corruption via /var/tmp/audacity-USER

December 2020 by Vigil@nce

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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, SLES.

Severity: 1/4.

Consequences: data creation/edition.

Provenance: user shell.

Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).

Creation date: 15/12/2020.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

A local attacker can create a symbolic link named
/var/tmp/audacity-USER, in order to alter the pointed file, with
privileges of Audacity.

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