9.3
CRITICAL
CVE-2012-2091
FlightGear and SimGear Buffer Overflow
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.

INFO

Published Date :

June 17, 2012, 3:41 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 1:38 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

10.0

Exploitability Score :

8.6
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2012-2091 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Flightgear flightgear
1 Simgear simgear

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2012-2091 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081997.html
    Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082002.html
    Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082017.html
    Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/48780
    Added Reference http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28957051
    Added Reference http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29012174
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/10/13
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811617
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 03, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jun. 18, 2012

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

13.13 }} 0.26%

score

0.95519

percentile

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