Bug 811630 (CVE-2012-2091) - CVE-2012-2091 FlightGear: Stack-buffer overflow by retrieving crafted rotor name
Summary: CVE-2012-2091 FlightGear: Stack-buffer overflow by retrieving crafted rotor name
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-2091
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 811634
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-11 15:08 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:52 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2017-05-16 15:07:49 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-04-11 15:08:11 UTC
A potential out-of stack-based buffer bounds write flaw was reported:
[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29011989

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.

CVE Request:
[2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/10/9

CVE Assignment:
[3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/10/13

Upstream patch:
None as of right now.

Note:
Report [1] mentions possibility of stack buffer overflow also in SimGear's:
simgear/simgear/simgear/io/sg_socket_udp.cxx:

line 101     int SGSocketUDP::read( char *buf, int length ) {
                .
                .
                .
line 108     if ( (result = sock.recv(buf, SG_IO_MAX_MSG_SIZE, 0)) >= 0 ) {

routine. Though I am not sure, how that one could be exploited remotely by the attacker, thus didn't include that use case here.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-04-11 15:13:54 UTC
Created FlightGear tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 811634]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-06-08 23:56:58 UTC
FlightGear-2.4.0-2.fc16, SimGear-2.4.0-4.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-06-08 23:58:24 UTC
FlightGear-2.6.0-2.fc17, SimGear-2.6.0-2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-06-09 00:01:43 UTC
FlightGear-2.0.0-6.fc15, SimGear-2.0.0-6.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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