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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703742
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3742-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'flightgear' package(s) announced via the DSA-3742-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'flightgear' package(s) announced via the DSA-3742-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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 3.0.0-5+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2016.4.3+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your flightgear packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'flightgear' package(s) on Debian 8.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-9956
BugTraq ID: 94945
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94945
Debian Security Information: DSA-3742 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3742
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BZKAN7V6UOHSRFWO567XMN4O6WXTSL32/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DB3B5XBB2NL2O2U4WNYGH7ZL45Q4UHGG/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/14/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/16/5
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4588-1/
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG

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