Buffer overflow in the Quake 3 Engine, as used by (1) ET 2.60, (2) Return to Castle Wolfenstein 1.41, and (3) Quake III Arena 1.32b allows…

Description

Buffer overflow in the Quake 3 Engine, as used by (1) ET 2.60, (2) Return to Castle Wolfenstein 1.41, and (3) Quake III Arena 1.32b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long remapShader command.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

7.8% · top 5.3% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 20060508 Two independent vulnerabilities (client and server side) in Quake3 engine and many derived games (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 19984 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2006-1676 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 17857 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• GLSA-200605-12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 20065 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• quake3-remapshader-client-bo(26264) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 1750 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• 25279 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 17:43 UTC.