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Debian DSA-3742-1 : flightgear - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 95957

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the flightgear packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.0-5+deb8u1.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/flightgear

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3742

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 95957

File Name: debian_DSA-3742.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/21/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:flightgear, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9956

DSA: 3742