High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 14, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-6903
CVE-2017-6903
Description
In ioquake3 before 2017-03-14, the auto-downloading feature has insufficient content restrictions. This also affects Quake III Arena, OpenArena, OpenJK, iortcw, and other id Tech 3 (aka Quake 3 engine) forks. A malicious auto-downloaded file can trigger loading of crafted auto-downloaded files as native code DLLs. A malicious auto-downloaded file can contain configuration defaults that override the user's. Executable bytecode in a malicious auto-downloaded file can set configuration variables to values that will result in unwanted native code DLLs being loaded, resulting in sandbox escape.
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
10- github.com/JACoders/OpenJK/commit/8956a35e7b91c4a0dd1fa6db1d28c7f0efbab2d7nvdIssue TrackingPatch
- github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/376267d534476a875d8b9228149c4ee18b74a4fdnvdIssue TrackingPatch
- github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/b173ac05993f634a42be3d3535e1b158de0c3372nvdIssue TrackingPatch
- github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/f61fe5f6a0419ef4a88d46a128052f2e8352e85dnvdIssue TrackingPatch
- github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/11a83410153756ae350a82ed41b08d128ff7f998nvdIssue TrackingPatch
- github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/b248763e4878ef12d5835ece6600be8334f67da1nvdIssue TrackingPatch
- github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/b6ff2bcb1e4e6976d61e316175c6d7c99860fe20nvdIssue TrackingPatch
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cginvdThird Party Advisory
- ioquake3.org/2017/03/13/important-security-update-please-update-ioquake3-immediately/nvdVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3812nvd
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