Debian: DSA-3742-1 Critical: Flightgear File Overwrite Risk
debian
December 20, 2016
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 priv...
Summary
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/
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Package: flightgear
CVE ID: CVE-2016-9956
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