CVE-2012-2091

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    CVE-2012-2091

    Published: 17 Jun 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: 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

    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
    CVE-2012-2091 | CVE-DB