Stellarium: Arbitrary File Write

Background

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Stellarium. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Impact

Attackers can write to files that are typically unintended, such as ones with absolute pathnames or … directory traversal.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Stellarium users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sci-astronomy/stellarium-23.1"