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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-2090: FlightGear, SimGear: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-2090: FlightGear, SimGear: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/16/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-games-simulation-flightgear
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-games-simulation-simgear

References

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