CVE-2012-2090

critical
Published 2012-06-17 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
โ€”
CVSS v4 NEW
โ€”
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
โ€”

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.6.0-1.1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.6.0-1.1
debian debianforkyfixed2.6.0-1.1
debian debiansidfixed2.6.0-1.1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.6.0-1.1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
flightgearflightgear{"endIncluding":"2.6.0"}
flightgearflightgear1.9.1
flightgearflightgear2.0.0
simgearsimgear{"endIncluding":"2.6.0"}
simgearsimgear1.9.1
simgearsimgear2.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-134

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.