CVE-2011-4620: Steve J Baker Plib

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 12.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

Published 2011-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.