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Vulnerability record · CVE-2012-2090 · published 17 June 2012

CVE-2012-2090: Flightgear vulnerability

Flightgear · Flightgear

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.

9.3 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 6.0% · top 6.9% CWE-134 · CWE-134
9.3CVSS 2.0 base score
6.0%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
20References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081997.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082017.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48780 Vendor Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28957051
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29012174
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/10/13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811617
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74791
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081997.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082017.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48780 Vendor Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28957051
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29012174
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/10/13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811617
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74791
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2012-2090), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.