Bug 20939

Summary:	flightgear security vulnerability (CVE-2017-8921)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Zombie Ryushu <zombie_ryushu>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lists.jjorge, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/171550/170/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	flightgear	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Zombie Ryushu 2017-05-25 22:07:59 CEST

This updates fixes a security bug in the route manager, to prevent it from
overwriting arbitrary files (CVE-2017-8921)

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2017-05-28 06:59:30 CEST

Thanks for the bug report.
This particular issue has already been reported in our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.
In general it is welcome to search for existing reports first to avoid filing duplicates.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 20852 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 2 José Jorge 2017-05-28 15:55:04 CEST

While we already had a patched 2017.1.3 version, I am pushing flightgear 2017.2.1 to cauldron which brings without patch the needed fix.

CC: (none) => lists.jjorge