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CVE-2010-5077

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-10-27 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

server/sv_main.c in Quake3 Arena, as used in ioquake3 before r1762, OpenArena, Tremulous, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (network traffic amplification) via a spoofed (1) getstatus or (2) rcon request.

Affected products

• Ioquake3 Engine: through r1761
• Openarena: all versions
• Tremulous: all versions

References

• http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=4391.0
• http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.games.ioquake3/961
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2442
• http://www.ioquake.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1694
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/26/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522076
• http://www.urbanterror.info/forums/topic/27825-drdos/
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665656
• http://openarena.ws/board/index.php?topic=4391.0
• http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.games.ioquake3/961
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2442
• http://www.ioquake.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1694

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