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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-15007

A buffer overflow in the M_LoadDefaults function in m_misc.c in id Tech 1 (aka Doom engine) allows arbitrary code execution via an unsafe usage of fscanf, because it does not limit the number of characters to be read in a format argument.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:33 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-15007

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Jun 2020, 11:15 UTC

A buffer overflow in the M_LoadDefaults function in m_misc.c in id Tech 1 (aka Doom engine) allows arbitrary code execution via an unsafe usage of fscanf, because it does not limit the number of characters to be read in a format argument.

osv:CVE-2020-15007
Complete source record
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