CVE-2012-2090

FlightGear and SimGear < 2.6.0 - Format String Vulnerability via Aircraft XML Model

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in FlightGear 2.6 and earlier and SimGear 2.6 and earlier allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in certain data chunk values in an aircraft xml model to (1) fgfs/flightgear/src/Cockpit/panel.cxx or (2) fgfs/flightgear/src/Network/generic.cxx, or (3) a scene graph model to simgear/simgear/scene/model/SGText.cxx.

References (10)

Core 10
Core References
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/48780
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74791
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082017.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/10/13
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082002.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811617
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081997.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0600
EPSS Percentile 92.4%

Details

CWE
CWE-134
Status published
Products (6)
flightgear/flightgear 1.9.1
flightgear/flightgear 2.0.0
flightgear/flightgear < 2.6.0
simgear/simgear 1.9.1
simgear/simgear 2.0.0
simgear/simgear < 2.6.0
Published Jun 17, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026