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>> Audacity GRO File Processing Client-side Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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A vulnerability has been identified in Audacity, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when importing a GRO file containing overly long data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into importing a malicious ".GRO" file.
Affected Products
Audacity version 1.2.6 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0008
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Houssamix.
ChangeLog
2009-01-05 : Initial release
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