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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63447
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:055 (audacity)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to audacity;announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:055.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to audacity
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:055.

Vulnerability Insight:
A vulnerability has been identified and corrected in audacity:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the String_parse::get_nonspace_quoted
function in lib-src/allegro/strparse.cpp in Audacity 1.2.6 and other
versions before 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a .gro file
containing a long string (CVE-2009-0490).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0, Corporate 3.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

CVSS Score:
9.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-0490
BugTraq ID: 33090
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33090
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7634
http://n2.nabble.com/Audacity-%22String_parse::get_nonspace_quoted()%22-Buffer-Overflow-td2139537.html
http://osvdb.org/51070
http://secunia.com/advisories/33356
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:004 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0008
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