CVE-2012-2090 (GCVE-0-2012-2090)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-17 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2012-03-09 00:00
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