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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-05T15:41:17.741Z

Reserved: 2017-03-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-6903

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-14T22:59:01.257

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-6903

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