CVE-2012-2091 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Flightgear
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
7.6%
top 8.15%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 17
Latest updateMay 17
Description
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.
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-2012-2091: flightgear - Multiple buffer overflows in FlightGear 2.6 and earlier and SimGear 2.6 and earl...↗2012