| 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, 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) | buster | 1:2018.3.2+dfsg-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:2020.3.16+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid | 1:2020.3.18+dfsg-1.1 | fixed |
| simgear (PTS) | buster | 1:2018.3.2+dfsg-5 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:2020.3.6+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:2020.3.16+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:2020.3.18+dfsg-2.1 | 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 |
Notes
Negligible security impact, very obscure attack vector