CVE-2011-4620 (GCVE-0-2011-4620)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-12-31 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:09
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1122 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/51340 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/47297 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18258/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-16 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://osvdb.org/77973 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/21/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2011-12-20 00:00
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