ioquake3 — security advisory
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.
- Products
- ioquake3
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.36+svn1788j-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-3325
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-3325
ioquake3
Fixed versions: 1.36+svn1788j-1
ioquake3
Fixed versions: 1.36+svn1788j-1
ioquake3
Fixed versions: 1.36+svn1788j-1
Complete source record
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