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CVE-2012-2091 (GCVE-0-2012-2091)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-17 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/48780 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811617 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?ms… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?ms… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2012-03-09 00:00
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