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critical 9.3

CVE-2012-2090 json

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in FlightGear 2.6 and earlier and SimGear 2.6 and earlier allow user-assisted remote attackers to ca…

published 2012-06-17 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-2096

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.9%
EPSS 5.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • simgear Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.10.0-2
  • flightgear Debian 13, Debian 12 2.6.0-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2090

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-2090 updated cvss 4.3

FlightGear: Multiple format string flaws

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.