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flightgear, simgear — security advisory
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.
- Products
- flightgear, simgear
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.10.0-3, 2.6.0-1.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-2091
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2091
flightgear
Fixed versions: 2.6.0-1.1
flightgear
Fixed versions: 2.6.0-1.1
simgear
Fixed versions: 2.10.0-3
simgear
Fixed versions: 2.10.0-3
simgear
Fixed versions: 2.10.0-3
Complete source record
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