CVE-2012-2091

FlightGear and SimGear < 2.6.0 - Buffer Overflow via Crafted Aircraft XML or UDP Packet

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in FlightGear 2.6 and earlier and SimGear 2.6 and earlier allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) long string in a rotor tag of an aircraft xml model to the Rotor::getValueforFGSet function in src/FDM/YASim/Rotor.cpp or (2) a crafted UDP packet to the SGSocketUDP::read function in simgear/simgear/simgear/io/sg_socket_udp.cxx.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/48780
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 0.0646
EPSS Percentile 92.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
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