Quake 3 Engine Denial of Service and Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CVE-2005-0430 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The Quake 3 engine, as used in multiple game packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (shutdown game server) and possibly crash the server via a long infostring, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

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