CVE-2005-0983

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 5, 2005
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Apr 5, 2005

Description

Quake 3 engine, as used in multiple games, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client disconnect) via a long message, which is not properly truncated and causes the engine to process the remaining data as if it were network data.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

14811third-party-advisory
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3msgboom-adv.txt
12976vdb-entry
20050402 In-game players kicking in the Quake 3 enginemailing-list
http://bani.anime.net/banimod/forums/viewtopic.php?p=27322

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