Debian: DSA-3742-1: flightgear security update

Date 20 Dec 2016

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

It was discovered that the Flight Gear flight simulator performs insufficient sanitising of Nasal scripts which allows a malicious script to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Flight Gear.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3742-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
December 20, 2016                     https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : flightgear
CVE ID         : CVE-2016-9956

It was discovered that the Flight Gear flight simulator performs
insufficient sanitising of Nasal scripts which allows a malicious script
to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running
Flight Gear.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.0-5+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:2016.4.3+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your flightgear packages.

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