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CVE-2016-9956

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The route manager in FlightGear before 2016.4.4 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted Nasal script.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 24, 25
• Flightgear: through 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/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3742
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/14/11

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