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quake2 -- multiple critical vulnerabilities

Affected packages
0 <= quake2forge
quake2lnx < 0.16.2

Details

VuXML ID 2c25e762-6bb9-11d9-93db-000a95bc6fae
Discovery 2004-10-27
Entry 2005-01-21
Modified 2005-03-15

An advisory published by Richard Stanway describes numerous critical vulnerabilities in the Quake II engine:

Due to unchecked input at various stages in the server, remote users are able to cause the server to crash, reveal sensitive information or potentially execute arbitrary code.

References

Message NGEHLEPKOGIHAIJAMDPKOEHJCGAA.bugtraq@secur1ty.net
URL http://secur1ty.net/advisories/001