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openarena — security advisory
sys/sys_unix.c in the ioQuake3 engine on Unix and Linux, as used in World of Padman 1.5.x before 1.5.1.1 and OpenArena 0.8.x-15 and 0.8.x-16, allows remote game servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a long fs_game variable.
- Products
- openarena
- Affected versions
- 0.8.8+dfsg-1, 0.8.8+dfsg-10, 0.8.8+dfsg-11, 0.8.8+dfsg-13, 0.8.8+dfsg-2, 0.8.8+dfsg-3, 0.8.8+dfsg-5, 0.8.8+dfsg-6, 0.8.8+dfsg-7, 0.8.8+dfsg-8, 0.8.8-14, 0.8.8-15, 0.8.8-19, 0.8.8-20
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2011-1412
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
sys/sys_unix.c in the ioQuake3 engine on Unix and Linux, as used in World of Padman 1.5.x before 1.5.1.1 and OpenArena 0.8.x-15 and 0.8.x-16, allows remote game servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a long fs_game variable.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2011-1412
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Complete source record
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