Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-8721 (FlightGear)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: FlightGear-2.6.0-3.fc17 
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Wed, 29 May 2013 00:56:54 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-8721
2013-05-21 07:05:02
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Name        : FlightGear
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.6.0
Release     : 3.fc17
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:

This update adds a fix to an uncontrolled format string vulnerability discovered in the cloud
layers handling code.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May 15 2013 Fabrice Bellet <fabrice@bellet.info> 2.6.0-3
- fix another uncontrolled format string vulnerability (#958312)
* Tue May 29 2012 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> 2.6.0-2
- 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 #958312 - FlightGear: improper handling of format strings
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958312
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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/.

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