CVE-2012-2091

NameCVE-2012-2091
DescriptionMultiple 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs669024, 669025

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
flightgear (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)3.0.0-5+deb8u3fixed
stretch1:2016.4.4+dfsg-3+deb9u1fixed
buster1:2018.3.2+dfsg-2fixed
bullseye1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1fixed
bookworm1:2020.3.16+dfsg-1fixed
sid, trixie1:2020.3.18+dfsg-1.1fixed
simgear (PTS)jessie3.0.0-6fixed
stretch1:2016.4.4+dfsg-2fixed
buster1:2018.3.2+dfsg-5fixed
bullseye1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1fixed
bookworm1:2020.3.16+dfsg-1fixed
sid, trixie1:2020.3.18+dfsg-2.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
flightgearsource(unstable)2.6.0-1.1unimportant669025
simgearsource(unstable)2.10.0-3unimportant669024

Notes

Negligible security impact, very obscure attack vector

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