National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3324

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-2569

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/2569

External Source: BID

Name: 18685

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18685

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060628 Re: Files and cvars overwriting in Quake 3 engine (1.32c / rev 803 / ...)

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060627 Files and cvars overwriting in Quake 3 engine (1.32c / rev 803 / ...)

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://svn.icculus.org/quake3?rev=804&view=rev

Hyperlink:http://svn.icculus.org/quake3?rev=804&view=rev

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20851

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20851

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20401

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20401

External Source: MISC

Name: http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt

Hyperlink:http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt

External Source: XF

Name: quake3-cvar-file-overwrite(27486)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27486

External Source: SREASON

Name: 1171

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1171