USN-4588-1

It was discovered that FlightGear could write arbitrary files if received a special nasal script. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted file to execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / flightgear

Package

Name: flightgear
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/flightgear@3.4.0-3ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.4.0-3ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

3.*

3.4.0-1build1

3.4.0-2

3.4.0-3

3.4.0-3ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "3.4.0-3ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "flightgear"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2016-9956"
        }
    ]
}