Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-8650 (FlightGear)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: FlightGear-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        : FlightGear
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.6.0
Release     : 2.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:

Fixes for CVE-2012-2090 CVE-2012-2091
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ChangeLog:

* 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 #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/.

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