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CVE-2012-2091

Multiple buffer overflows in FlightGear 2.6 and earlier and SimGear 2.6 and earlier allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial…

High9.3EPSS 6.4%
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redhat

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2012-2091, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0High9.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
6.4% · top 6.3% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

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