CVE-2016-9956

The route manager in FlightGear before 2016.4.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted Nasal script.

• CWE-284

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3742Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/14/11Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/10Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/16/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94945Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BZKAN7V6UOHSRFWO567XMN4O6WXTSL32/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DB3B5XBB2NL2O2U4WNYGH7ZL45Q4UHGG/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/flightgear/ci/280cd523686fbdb175d50417266d2487a8ce67d2/Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/files/release-2016.4/Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4588-1/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3742Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/14/11Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/10Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/16/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94945Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BZKAN7V6UOHSRFWO567XMN4O6WXTSL32/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DB3B5XBB2NL2O2U4WNYGH7ZL45Q4UHGG/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/flightgear/ci/280cd523686fbdb175d50417266d2487a8ce67d2/Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/files/release-2016.4/Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4588-1/

Published

Feb 22, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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