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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.060 (93.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.060 · newest: 0.060 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Flightgear — versions 1.9.1, 2.0.0
- Simgear — versions 1.9.1, 2.0.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/48780 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74791 (vdb-entry)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082017.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/10/13 (mailing-list)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082002.html (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12 (vendor-advisory)
- sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php (mailing-list)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081997.html (vendor-advisory)
- sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php (mailing-list)