[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: FlightGear-2.4.0-2.fc16
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Fri Jun 8 23:57:07 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8647
2012-05-31 00:21:51
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Name : FlightGear
Product : Fedora 16
Version : 2.4.0
Release : 2.fc16
URL : http://www.flightgear.org/
Summary : The FlightGear Flight Simulator
Description :
The Flight Gear project is working to create a sophisticated flight
simulator framework for the development and pursuit of interesting
flight simulator ideas. We are developing a solid basic sim that can be
expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing
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Update Information:
Fixes for CVE-2012-2090 CVE-2012-2091
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ChangeLog:
* Tue May 29 2012 Tom Callaway <spot at fedoraproject.org> 2.4.0-2
- check that printf format strings are never %n (CVE-2012-2090)
- use snprintf with a max size of 256 to prevent rotor name overflow (CVE-2012-2091)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #811617 - CVE-2012-2090 SimGear, FlightGear: Multiple format string flaws
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811617
[ 2 ] Bug #811630 - CVE-2012-2091 FlightGear: Stack-buffer overflow by retrieving crafted rotor name
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811630
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update FlightGear' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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