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Fedora 26: 2017-60775d65bb Critical: FlightGear File Overwrite Issue

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security patch for FlightGear in Fedora 26 resolves an issue in the route management system that might cause file overwriting.
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

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2017.1.3
Release: 2.fc26
Summary: The FlightGear Flight Simulator

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