CVE-2011-4620

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the ulSetError function in util/ulError.cxx in PLIB 1.8.5, as used in TORCS 1.3.1 and other products, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a long error message, as demonstrated by a crafted acc file for TORCS. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Steve J Baker Plib: 1.8.5

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00015.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/21/2
http://osvdb.org/77973
http://secunia.com/advisories/47297
http://secunia.com/advisories/51340
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18258/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-16
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00015.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/21/2
http://osvdb.org/77973

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