Denial of Service Vulnerability in Quake 1 and NetQuake Servers

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Quake 1 and NetQuake Servers

CVE-1999-1569 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Quake 1 and NetQuake servers allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion or forced disconnection) via a flood of spoofed UDP connection packets, which exceeds the server's player limit.

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