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CVE-2006-3325
Published: Jun 30, 2006
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
client/cl_parse.c in the id3 Quake 3 Engine 1.32c and the Icculus Quake 3 Engine (ioquake3) revision 810 and earlier allows remote malicious servers to overwrite arbitrary write-protected cvars variables on the client, such as cl_allowdownload for Automatic Downloading and fs_homepath for the quake3 path, via a string of cvar names and values sent from the server. NOTE: this can be combined with another vulnerability to overwrite arbitrary files.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
20060628 Re: Files and cvars overwriting in Quake 3 engine (1.32c / rev 803 / ...)
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
20060627 Files and cvars overwriting in Quake 3 engine (1.32c / rev 803 / ...)
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt
x_refsource_MISC
18685
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
20851
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
1171
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SREASON
20401
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
quake3-cvar-file-overwrite(27486)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
ADV-2006-2569
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
quake3-clparsedownload-bo(26889)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
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