| Name | CVE-2012-2090 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 669024, 669025 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| flightgear (PTS) | bullseye | 1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:2020.3.16+dfsg-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:2020.3.19+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| simgear (PTS) | bullseye | 1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:2020.3.16+dfsg-1+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:2020.3.19+dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| flightgear | source | (unstable) | 2.6.0-1.1 | unimportant | | 669025 |
| simgear | source | (unstable) | 2.10.0-2 | unimportant | | 669024 |
Notes
Negligible security impact, very obscure attack vector