PT-2011-4074 · Id · Quake 3 Engine

Published 2011-08-04 · Updated 2018-10-09 · CVE-2011-2764

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ioQuake3 engine version 1.36 and earlier

Description The issue arises from the FS CheckFilenameIsNotExecutable function in qcommon/files.c, which fails to properly identify dangerous file extensions. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by creating a Trojan horse DLL file through a crafted third-party addon.

Recommendations For ioQuake3 engine version 1.36 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-2764

Affected Products

Quake 3 Engine

References · 19

• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2011-07/0338.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725951 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2764 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2011-2764 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2764 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-2764 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2764 · Vendor Advisory
• http://thilo.tjps.eu/download/patches/ioq3-svn-r2098.diff · Patch
• http://svn.icculus.org/quake3?view=rev&revision=2098 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-2764 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-2764 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-23 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063460.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/519051/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/48915 · Note