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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-3325
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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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27486
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26889

SREASON
  http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1171

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA20851
  Secunia Advisory: SA20401

MISC
  http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3cfilevar-adv.txt

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/438660/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/438515/100/0/threaded

BID
  18685


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