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ioquake3 — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2006-3325

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

DEBIAN-CVE-2006-3325

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 Jun 2006, 23:05 UTC

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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