SimGear could be made to run programs as an administrator if it opened a specially crafted file.
It was discovered that SimGear could be made to bypass the sandboxing of Nasal scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
It was discovered that SimGear could be made to bypass the sandboxing of Nasal scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
It was discovered that SimGear could be made to bypass the sandboxing of Nasal scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
It was discovered that SimGear could be made to bypass the sandboxing of Nasal scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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