Description
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: 2012-06-17
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 4.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-2096 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.
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Flightgear Flightgear
Simgear Simgear
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:26:07.202Z

Reserved: 2012-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-2090

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-06-17T03:41:40.560

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-2090

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