flightgear vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

FlightGear could be made to crash if it received specially crafted
input.

Software Description

* flightgear - Flight Gear Flight Simulator

Details

It was discovered that FlightGear could write arbitrary files if
received a special nasal script. A remote attacker could exploit
this with a crafted file to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
flightgear - 3.4.0-3ubuntu1.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

* CVE-2016-9956

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