CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-3325
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-06-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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.
Affected configurations
• id software quake 3 engine
• id software quake 3 engine 1.32b
• id software quake 3 engine 1.32c
• id software quake 3 engine icculus 803
• id software quake 3 engine icculus 804
• id software quake 3 engine icculus 805
• id software quake 3 engine icculus 806
• id software quake 3 engine icculus 807
• id software quake 3 engine icculus 808
• id software quake 3 engine icculus 809
• id software quake 3 engine icculus 810
References
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20401 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20851 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1171 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18685 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2569 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26889 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27486 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20401 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20851 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1171 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18685 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2569 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26889 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27486 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com