CVE-2011-4620 Information

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.

Reference

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