Updated flightgear package fixes security vulnerability
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013Modification date: 06 Jun 2013
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 2 , 3
Description
It was reported that FlightGear suffers from improper handling of format strings when FlightGear is started with allowances for remote access (via the --props or --telnet commandline arguments). If a remote attacker were able to connect to FlightGear and set special parameters related with clouds, it could cause FlightGear to crash.
References
SRPMS
2/core
- flightgear-2.6.0-2.3.mga2
3/core
- flightgear-2.10.0-1.3.mga3