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CVE-2012-2090

Published: 17 June 2012

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.

Priority

Negligible

Status

Package Release Status
flightgear
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hardy Ignored
(end of life)
lucid Ignored

natty Ignored

oneiric Ignored

upstream Needs triage

This vulnerability is mitigated in part by the use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 in Ubuntu.
simgear
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hardy Ignored
(end of life)
lucid Ignored

natty Ignored

oneiric Ignored

upstream Needs triage

This vulnerability is mitigated in part by the use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 in Ubuntu.