National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3325

Overview

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.

Impact

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

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-2569

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.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: 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: XF

Name: quake3-clparsedownload-bo(26889)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26889

External Source: SREASON

Name: 1171

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