CVE-2016-9956
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
The route manager in FlightGear before 2016.4.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted Nasal script.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:2016.4.3+dfsg-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:2016.4.3+dfsg-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:2016.4.3+dfsg-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:2016.4.3+dfsg-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:2016.4.3+dfsg-1 |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| fedora | 24 | affected | |
| fedora | 25 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| flightgear | flightgear | {"endIncluding":"2016.4.3"} | |
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3742
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/14/11
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/16/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94945
- 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/
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/flightgear/files/release-2016.4/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4588-1/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9956
CWEs
CWE-284
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.