Published: 22/02/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

The route manager in FlightGear prior to 2016.4.4 allows remote malicious users to write to arbitrary files via a crafted Nasal script.

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Debian Bug report logs - #862689 flightgear: CVE-2017-8921 Package: src:flightgear; Maintainer for src:flightgear is Debian FlightGear Crew <team+flightgear@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 20:09:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security, upstream F ...

Debian Bug report logs - #848114 flightgear: CVE-2016-9956: Allows the route manager to overwrite arbitrary files Package: src:flightgear; Maintainer for src:flightgear is Debian FlightGear Crew <team+flightgear@trackerdebianorg>; Reported by: Florent Rougon <frougon@freefr> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:57:02 UTC Se ...

It was discovered that the Flight Gear flight simulator performs insufficient sanitising of Nasal scripts which allows a malicious script to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running Flight Gear For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 300-5+deb8u1 For the unstable distribution (sid), ...

CWE-284 https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/files/release-2016.4/https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/flightgear/ci/280cd523686fbdb175d50417266d2487a8ce67d2/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94945 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/16/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/14/11 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3742 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4588-1/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DB3B5XBB2NL2O2U4WNYGH7ZL45Q4UHGG/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BZKAN7V6UOHSRFWO567XMN4O6WXTSL32/https://nvd.nist.gov https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862689 https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3742

CVE-2016-9956

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