Description
The Automatic Downloading option in the id3 Quake 3 Engine and the Icculus Quake 3 Engine (ioquake3) before revision 804 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files in the quake3 directory (fs_homepath cvar) via a long string of filenames, as contained in the neededpaks buffer.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://svn.icculus.org/quake3?rev=804&view=rev ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18685 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20851 ↗
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1171 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20401 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27486 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2569 ↗