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FlightGear: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):FlightGear CVE #(s):CVE-2012-2090 CVE-2012-2091
Created:June 11, 2012 Updated:August 3, 2012
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla: [1], [2]:

[1] Multiple format string flaws were reported in the way Flight Gear, the flight simulator, and SimGear, a simulation library components performed retrieval of various data chunk values from XML aircraft (FlightGear) or scene graph (SimGear) model data files. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted XML model file, which once opened by a local, unsuspecting user in FlightGear / in an application linked against SimGear, would lead to that particular executable crash.

[2] A potential out-of stack-based buffer bounds write flaw was reported in the way Flight Gear, the flight simulator, retrieved rotor name for certain rotor models. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted rotor model XML data file, which once opened by a local, unsuspecting user in FlightGear would lead to 'fgfs' executable crash.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8650 2012-06-08
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8647 2012-06-08
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8615 2012-06-09
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8650 2012-06-08
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8647 2012-06-08
Fedora FEDORA-2012-8615 2012-06-09
Mageia MGASA-2012-0191 2012-08-02

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