Bug 1485913 (CVE-2017-13709)

Summary:	CVE-2017-13709 flightgear: Arbitrary file overwrite via resource affecting global Property Tree
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	fabrice
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-08-28 12:25:57 UTC

In FlightGear before version 2017.3.1, Main/logger.cxx in the FGLogger
subsystem allows one to overwrite any file via a resource that affects
the contents of the global Property Tree.

Upstream fix:

https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/flightgear/ci/c7a2aef59979af3e9ff22daabb37bdaadb91cd75/
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/flightgear/ci/2a5e3d06b2c0d9f831063afe7e7260bca456d679/

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-08-28 12:26:53 UTC

Created FlightGear tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1485915]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:22:21 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.