Audacity Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (Linux)

Summary
This host has Audacity installed and is prone to Buffer Overflow vulnerability.
Impact
Attacker may leverage this issue by executing arbitrary script code on the affected application, and can cause denial of service. Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to version 1.3.6 or latest http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Insight
Error in the String_parse::get_nonspace_quoted function in lib-src/allegro/strparse.cpp file that fails to validate user input data.
Affected
Audacity version prior to 1.3.6 on Linux.
References

Updated on 2017-03-28