CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-0490
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-02-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• audacityteam audacity (< 1.3.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253493 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
- http://n2.nabble.com/Audacity-%22String_parse::get_nonspace_quoted%28%29%22-Buffer-Overflow-td2139537.html n2.nabble.com
- http://osvdb.org/51070 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33356 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33090 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0008 Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7634 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253493 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html Third Party Advisory
- http://n2.nabble.com/Audacity-%22String_parse::get_nonspace_quoted%28%29%22-Buffer-Overflow-td2139537.html n2.nabble.com
- http://osvdb.org/51070 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33356 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33090 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0008 Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7634 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry