cve/2006/CVE-2006-3325.md

CVE-2006-3325

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.

POC

Reference

• http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1171

Github

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