CVE-2012-2090: Flightgear

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Flightgear Flightgear: up to and including 2.6.0; version 1.9.1 only; version 2.0.0 only
• Simgear Simgear: up to and including 2.6.0; version 1.9.1 only; version 2.0.0 only

Published 2012-06-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.