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Fedora 27: 2017-45beeef896 Critical: FGLogger Arbitrary File Overwrite

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addresses a vulnerability in FlightGear's FGLogger component, effectively stopping users from executing unauthorized file overwrites.
This update fixes a security bug in the FGLogger subsystem, to prevent it from overwriting arbitrary files the user has write access to (CVE-2017-13709)

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 update fixes a security bug in the FGLogger subsystem, to prevent it from

overwriting arbitrary files the user has write access to (CVE-2017-13709)

[ 1 ] Bug #1485915 - CVE-2017-13709 flightgear: Arbitrary file overwrite via resource affecting global Property Tree [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485915

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/

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 2017.2.1
Release: 4.fc27
Summary: The FlightGear Flight Simulator

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