CVE-2006-3324 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2006-3324

The Automatic Downloading option in the id3 Quake 3 Engine...

Vulnerability Description

The Automatic Downloading option in the id3 Quake 3 Engine and the Icculus Quake 3 Engine (ioquake3) before revision 804 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files in the quake3 directory (fs_homepath cvar) via a long string of filenames, as contained in the neededpaks buffer.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

id software

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Affected Software

quake 3 engine
Vulnerable Versions:
1.32b, 1.32c, icculus_803, icculus_804

Timeline

Official Publish: June 30th, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.