01 Record
CVE-2005-0983
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.55% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-04-05 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 21:35Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-04-05
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5da454955e292904c4b0d154be75dbbdb95c1b4ba1d1dd888d3dc0f3d1084f49
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- secunia.com14811http://secunia.com/advisories/14811
- aluigi.altervista.orghttp://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3msgboom-adv.txt
- www.securityfocus.com12976http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12976
- marc.info20050402 In-game players kicking in the Quake 3 enginehttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111246796918067&w=2
- bani.anime.nethttp://bani.anime.net/banimod/forums/viewtopic.php?p=27322