Debian DLA-318-1 : flightgear security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 86197

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that flightgear, a Flight Gear Flight Simulator game, did not perform adequate filesystem validation checks in its fgValidatePath routine.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected flightgear package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/09/msg00014.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/flightgear

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 86197

File Name: debian_DLA-318.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/30/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:flightgear, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2015