CVE-2012-2090
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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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081997.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082002.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082017.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48780
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12
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