9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-6903

Published: 14/03/2017 Updated: 24/08/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

In ioquake3 prior to 2017-03-14, the auto-downloading feature has insufficient content restrictions. This also affects Quake III Arena, OpenArena, OpenJK, iortcw, and other id Tech 3 (aka Quake 3 engine) forks. A malicious auto-downloaded file can trigger loading of crafted auto-downloaded files as native code DLLs. A malicious auto-downloaded file can contain configuration defaults that override the user's. Executable bytecode in a malicious auto-downloaded file can set configuration variables to values that will result in unwanted native code DLLs being loaded, resulting in sandbox escape.

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Debian Bug report logs - #857699 ioquake3: CVE-2017-6903: privilege escalation by auto-downloaded files Package: ioquake3; Maintainer for ioquake3 is Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for ioquake3 is src:ioquake3 (PTS, buildd, popcon) Affects: openarena, quake3 Reported by: Daniel Gibson < ...
Debian Bug report logs - #870725 CVE-2017-11721: read buffer overflow in MSG_ReadBits Package: src:ioquake3; Maintainer for src:ioquake3 is Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 14:33:05 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed-upst ...
It was discovered that ioquake3, a modified version of the ioQuake3 game engine performs insufficent restrictions on automatically downloaded content (pk3 files or game code), which allows malicious game servers to modify configuration settings including driver settings For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1 ...