CVE-2006-3324

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-1976 dos windows verified

RunningBon · 2006-07-02

Quake 3 Engine Client - 'CG_ServerCommand()' Remote Overflow

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.36+svn1788j-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.36+svn1788j-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.36+svn1788j-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.36+svn1788j-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.36+svn1788j-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-3324

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.