In FlightGear before 2017.2.1, the FGCommand interface allows overwriting any file the user has write access to, but not with arbitrary data: only with the contents of a FlightGear flightplan (XML). A resource such as a malicious third-party aircraft could exploit this to damage files belonging to the user. Both this issue and CVE-2016-9956 are directory traversal vulnerabilities in Autopilot/route_mgr.cxx - this one exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9956.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-12T19:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T23:56:50.860Z

Reserved: 2017-05-12T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2017-8921

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-05-12T19:29:00.300

Modified: 2017-05-26T18:13:36.860

Link: CVE-2017-8921

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