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Fedora 25: FlightGear Security Advisory - Critical File Overwrite Issue

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch addresses a major vulnerability in Ubuntu 20.04 OpenSim, stopping data loss in the environment settings.
This updates fixes a security bug in the route manager, to prevent it from overwriting arbitrary files (CVE-2017-8921)

Summary

The Flight Gear project is working to create a sophisticated flight

simulator framework for the development and pursuit of interesting

flight simulator ideas. We are developing a solid basic sim that can be

expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing

This updates fixes a security bug in the route manager, to prevent it from

overwriting arbitrary files (CVE-2017-8921)

su -c 'dnf upgrade FlightGear' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2016.3.1
Release: 4.fc25
Summary: The FlightGear Flight Simulator

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