Buffer overflow in Flightgear

CVE-2012-2091

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.065 (93.0th 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