ubuntu-cve-2017-6903
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-03-14 22:59
Modified
2025-10-24 04:46
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "ioquake3",
            "binary_version": "1.36+u20160122+dfsg1-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "ioquake3-server",
            "binary_version": "1.36+u20160122+dfsg1-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "ioquake3",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/ioquake3@1.36+u20160122+dfsg1-1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.36+u20150710+dfsg1-1",
        "1.36+u20150926+dfsg1-1",
        "1.36+u20151017+dfsg1-1",
        "1.36+u20160122+dfsg1-1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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\u0027s. 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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6903",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:46:12Z",
  "published": "2017-03-14T22:59:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6903"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857699"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/376267d534476a875d8b9228149c4ee18b74a4fd"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/b173ac05993f634a42be3d3535e1b158de0c3372"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/commit/f61fe5f6a0419ef4a88d46a128052f2e8352e85d"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/11a83410153756ae350a82ed41b08d128ff7f998"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/b248763e4878ef12d5835ece6600be8334f67da1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw/commit/b6ff2bcb1e4e6976d61e316175c6d7c99860fe20"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK/commit/8956a35e7b91c4a0dd1fa6db1d28c7f0efbab2d7"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ioquake3.org/2017/03/13/important-security-update-please-update-ioquake3-immediately/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6903"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2017-6903"
  ]
}



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