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CVE-2012-2091
high
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.
References
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-12
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811617
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/10/13
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29012174
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28957051
http://secunia.com/advisories/48780
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082017.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081997.html