National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1189

Overview

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.

Impact

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://torcs.sourceforge.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=79

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://torcs.sourceforge.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=79

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://freecode.com/projects/torcs/releases/341672

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://freecode.com/projects/torcs/releases/341672

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 79372

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/79372

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120305 Re: TORCS 1.3.2 xml buffer overflow - CVE-2012-1189

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/18

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120218 TORCS 1.3.2 xml buffer overflow - CVE-2012-1189

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/18/2

External Source: EXPLOIT-DB

Name: 18471

Hyperlink:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18471