CVE-2012-2090 — Use of Externally-Controlled Format String in Flightgear
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
4.5%
top 10.88%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 17
Latest updateMay 17
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.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0
Affected Packages6 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2012-2090: flightgear - Multiple format string vulnerabilities in FlightGear 2.6 and earlier and SimGear...↗2012