CVE-2012-2090

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    CVE-2012-2090

    Published: 17 Jun 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://secunia.com/advisories/48780, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811617, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081997.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082002.html, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082017.html, http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28957051, http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29012174, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/10/13, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74791

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High