Bug 1405412 (CVE-2016-9956)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9956 FlightGear: Route manager allows overwrite of arbitrary files
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	fabrice
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-12-16 13:00:45 UTC

The FlightGear project fixed a security issue, allowing arbitrary file
overwrites for files the user running FlightGear has write access to
and could be taken advantage to for other impact as arbitrary code
execution.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/674

Upstream patch:

https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/flightgear/ci/280cd523686fbdb175d50417266d2487a8ce67d2/

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-12-16 13:01:07 UTC

Created FlightGear tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1405413]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-16 15:12:35 UTC

Please, be aware that the fix for this issue seem to be incomplete:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/255

Comment 3 Fabrice Bellet 2017-05-16 16:19:18 UTC

Yes, that's right, updated packages for this new CVE have been built yesterday:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=891634
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=891630
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=891637
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=891627

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:04:34 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.