CVE-2006-2236
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
02 Description
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
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
- 7.76% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.6% 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
- 2006-05-08 23:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 17:43Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-05-08
- 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
- 7a0e1b9dd8a4612d86e0f798690a4a6ca95e0495dc51c51edec7b5e6fb40aecb
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com20060508 Two independent vulnerabilities (client and server side) in Quake3 engine and many derived gameshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433349/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com19984http://secunia.com/advisories/19984
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-1676http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1676
- www.securityfocus.com17857http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17857
- www.gentoo.orgGLSA-200605-12http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200605-12.xml
- secunia.com20065http://secunia.com/advisories/20065
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comquake3-remapshader-client-bo(26264)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26264
- www.exploit-db.com1750https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1750
- www.osvdb.org25279http://www.osvdb.org/25279
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- ioquake3 Fixed in 1.36+svn1788j-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- ioquake3 Fixed in 1.36+svn1788j-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- ioquake3 Fixed in 1.36+svn1788j-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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