CVE-2012-1189
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 9.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 9.6% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1217)
- Published
- October 8, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1217 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- bernhard wymann / torcs
- bernhard wymann / torcs
- bernhard wymann / torcs
- bernhard wymann / torcs
- bernhard wymann / torcs
- speed-dreams / speed dreams
References
- http://freecode.com/projects/torcs/releases/341672(Patch)
- http://torcs.sourceforge.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=79(Patch)
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18471(Exploit)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/18/2(Exploit)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/18(Exploit)
- http://www.osvdb.org/79372
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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