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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:26 pm Post subject: [ GLSA 201603-12 ] FlightGear, SimGear |
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: FlightGear, SimGear: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201603-12)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: March 12, 2016
Bug(s): #426502, #468106
ID: 201603-12
Synopsis
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FlightGear and SimGear
allowing remote attackers to cause Denial of Service and possibly execute
arbitrary code.
Background
FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator. It supports a variety of
popular platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) and is developed by skilled
volunteers from around the world. Source code for the entire project is
available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
SimGear is a set of open-source libraries designed to be used as
building blocks for quickly assembling 3d simulations, games, and
visualization applications.
Affected Packages
Package: games-simulation/flightgear
Vulnerable: < 3.4.0
Unaffected: >= 3.4.0
Architectures: All supported architectures
Package: games-simulation/simgear
Vulnerable: < 3.4.0
Unaffected: >= 3.4.0
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
Multiple format string vulnerabilities in FlightGear and SimGear allow
user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly
execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in certain data chunk
values in an aircraft xml model.
Impact
Remote attackers could possibly execute arbitrary code or cause Denial
of Service.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Flightgear users should upgrade to the latest version: Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
">=games-simulation/flightgear-3.4.0"
| All Simgear users should upgrade to the latest version: Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=games-simulation/simgear-3.4.0"
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References
CVE-2012-2090
CVE-2012-2091 |
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