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.
CVE-2012-2090 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 2 products from flightgear, from simgear organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2012, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2012-06-17T03:41:40.560
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 9.3 (HIGH)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
8.6
10.0
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | flightgear | flightgear | ≤ 2.6.0 | Yes |
| Application | flightgear | flightgear | 1.9.1 | Yes |
| Application | flightgear | flightgear | 2.0.0 | Yes |
| Application | simgear | simgear | ≤ 2.6.0 | Yes |
| Application | simgear | simgear | 1.9.1 | Yes |
| Application | simgear | simgear | 2.0.0 | Yes |
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