[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: SimGear-2.6.0-2.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8650
2012-05-31 00:22:02
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Name        : SimGear
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.6.0
Release     : 2.fc17
URL         : http://simgear.sourceforge.net
Summary     : Simulation library components
Description :
SimGear is a set of open-source libraries designed to be used as building
blocks for quickly assembling 3d simulations, games, and visualization
applications.

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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> 2.6.0-2
- check to be sure that %n is not being set as format type (CVE-2012-2090)
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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 SimGear' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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