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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-2091: FlightGear, SimGear: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-2091: 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 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.

Solution(s)

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

References

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