Description
Quake 1 and NetQuake servers allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion or forced disconnection) via a flood of spoofed UDP connection packets, which exceeds the server's player limit.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- ID Software Quake 1.9 - Denial of Service EDB-21012 · dos · Jul 17, 2001 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 19981101 Quake problem? mailing-list
- 3051 vdb-entry
- 19980502 NetQuake Protocol problem resulting in smurf like effect. mailing-list
- 20010716 Quake client and server denial-of-service mailing-list
- quake-spoofed-client-dos(6871) vdb-entry