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CVE-2006-2236 (GCVE-0-2006-2236)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-05-08 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 17:43
VLAI
Summary
Buffer overflow in the Quake 3 Engine, as used by (1) ET 2.60, (2) Return to Castle Wolfenstein 1.41, and (3) Quake III Arena 1.32b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long remapShader command.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/19984 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1676 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17857 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20060… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/20065 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1750 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.osvdb.org/25279 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2006-05-05 00:00
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