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Vulnerability record · CVE-2012-2091 · published 17 June 2012

CVE-2012-2091: Flightgear memory buffer overflow vulnerability

Flightgear · Flightgear

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.

9.3 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 6.5% · top 6.5% CWE-119 · Memory buffer overflow
9.3CVSS 2.0 base score
6.5%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
18References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

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://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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2012-2091), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.