| Name | CVE-2017-6903 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3812-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 857699, 857714 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ioquake3 (PTS) | bullseye | 1.36+u20201117.d1b7ab6~dfsg-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.36+u20221123.70d07d9+dfsg-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 1.36+u20250316.526edd3+dfsg-1 | fixed | |
| iortcw (PTS) | bullseye/contrib | 1.51.c+dfsg1-3 | fixed |
| bookworm/contrib | 1.51.c+dfsg1-4 | fixed | |
| trixie/contrib, sid/contrib | 1.51.c+dfsg1-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ioquake3 | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| ioquake3 | source | jessie | 1.36+u20140802+gca9eebb-2+deb8u1 | DSA-3812-1 | ||
| ioquake3 | source | (unstable) | 1.36+u20161101+dfsg1-2 | 857699 | ||
| iortcw | source | (unstable) | 1.50a+dfsg1-3 | 857714 |
[wheezy] - ioquake3 <end-of-life> (Not supported in Wheezy LTS)
https://ioquake3.org/2017/03/13/important-security-update-please-update-ioquake3-immediately/
Also affects openjk (only in experimental; bug #857715)