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CVE-2012-2091

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) a…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
FlightgearFlightgear
through 2.6.0
Versions 1.9.1, 2.0.0
SimgearSimgear
through 2.6.0
Versions 1.9.1, 2.0.0

Weakness classification

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