Vulnerability in Flightgear

CVE-2012-2090

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.

EPSS: 0.060 (92.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Flightgear — versions 1.9.1, 2.0.0
  • Simgear — versions 1.9.1, 2.0.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References