CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-6903

Published: Mar 14, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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In ioquake3 before 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 users. 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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Ioquake3Ioquake3*2017-02-27 (including)
Ioquake3Ubuntuartful*
Ioquake3Ubuntuesm-apps/xenial*
Ioquake3Ubuntuprecise*
Ioquake3Ubuntutrusty*
Ioquake3Ubuntuupstream*
Ioquake3Ubuntuxenial*
Ioquake3Ubuntuyakkety*
Ioquake3Ubuntuzesty*
OpenarenaUbuntuartful*
OpenarenaUbuntucosmic*
OpenarenaUbuntuprecise*
OpenarenaUbuntutrusty*
OpenarenaUbuntuyakkety*
OpenarenaUbuntuzesty*

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