[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 201603-12 ] FlightGear, SimGear: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201603-12

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https://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: FlightGear, SimGear: Multiple vulnerabilities

Date: March 12, 2016

Bugs: #426502, #468106

ID: 201603-12

 

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Synopsis

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in FlightGear and SimGear

allowing remote attackers to cause Denial of Service and possibly

execute arbitrary code.

 

Background

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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

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 games-simulation/flightgear

< 3.4.0 >= 3.4.0

2 games-simulation/simgear

< 3.4.0 >= 3.4.0

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2 affected packages

 

Description

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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

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Remote attackers could possibly execute arbitrary code or cause Denial

of Service.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Flightgear users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=games-simulation/flightgear-3.4.0"

 

All Simgear users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=games-simulation/simgear-3.4.0"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2012-2090

http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2090

[ 2 ] CVE-2012-2091

http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-2091

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

https://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2016 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5