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  <title>Audacity: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    A boundary error in Audacity allows for the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">audacity</product>
  <announced>2009-03-06</announced>
  <revised count="01">2009-03-06</revised>
  <bug>253493</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-sound/audacity" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.3.6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.3.6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Audacity is a free cross-platform audio editor.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Houssamix discovered a boundary error in the
    String_parse::get_nonspace_quoted() function in
    lib-src/allegro/strparse.cpp.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user into importing a specially
    crafted *.gro file, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or a
    Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Audacity users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-sound/audacity-1.3.6"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0490">CVE-2009-0490</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-03-05T20:19:24Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-03-05T23:00:03Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-03-06T22:00:48Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>
