CVE - CVE-2006-3325

CVE-ID
CVE-2006-3325	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:18685 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18685 BUGTRAQ:20060627 Files and cvars overwriting in Quake 3 engine (1.32c / rev 803 / ...) URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded BUGTRAQ:20060628 Re: Files and cvars overwriting in Quake 3 engine (1.32c / rev 803 / ...) URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded MISC:http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt SECUNIA:20401 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/20401 SECUNIA:20851 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/20851 SREASON:1171 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1171 VUPEN:ADV-2006-2569 URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2569 XF:quake3-clparsedownload-bo(26889) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26889 XF:quake3-cvar-file-overwrite(27486) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27486
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20060630	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20060630)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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