CVE-2012-2091

Name	CVE-2012-2091
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, 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)	bookworm	1:2020.3.16+dfsg-1+deb12u1	fixed
	trixie	1:2020.3.19+dfsg-1	fixed
	sid	1:2024.1.5+dfsg-1	fixed
simgear (PTS)	bookworm	1:2020.3.16+dfsg-1+deb12u1	fixed
	trixie	1:2020.3.19+dfsg-1	fixed
	forky, sid	1:2024.1.5+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)	2.10.0-3	unimportant		669024

Negligible security impact, very obscure attack vector