CVE-2012-1189

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in modules/graphic/ssgraph/grsound.cpp in The Open Racing Car Simulator (TORCS) before 1.3.3 and Speed Dreams allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long file name in an engine sample attribute in an xml configuration file.

Affected products

Bernhard Wymann Torcs: through 1.3.2; 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.3.0, 1.3.1
Speed-Dreams Speed Dreams: all versions

References

http://freecode.com/projects/torcs/releases/341672
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=79
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18471
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/18/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/18
http://www.osvdb.org/79372
http://freecode.com/projects/torcs/releases/341672
http://torcs.sourceforge.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=79
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18471
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/18/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/18
http://www.osvdb.org/79372

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