Upstream 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.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 738207 SUSE Security Advisories:- openSUSE-SU-2012:1506-1, published Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:08:34 +0100 (CET)
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0146-1, published Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:05:38 +0100 (CET)