-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://www.debian.org/security/ Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Debian: DSA-3742-1: flightgear security update
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.
