CVE-2006-3324

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-06-30 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Id Software Quake 3 Engine: 1.32b, 1.32c, icculus_803, icculus_804

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/20401
http://secunia.com/advisories/20851
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1171
http://svn.icculus.org/quake3?rev=804&view=rev
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18685
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2569
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27486
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/20401

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