Description
Quake II server before R1Q2, as used in multiple products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a modified client that asks the server to send data stored at a negative array offset, which is not handled when processing Configstrings and Baselines.
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 II Server 3.2 - Multiple Vulnerabilities EDB-24710 · dos · Oct 27, 2004 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- http://web.archive.org/web/20041130092749/www.r1ch.net/stuff/r1q2/
- 1011979 vdb-entry
- 11551 vdb-entry
- 11181 vdb-entry
- quake-configstrings-baselines-dos(17890) vdb-entry
- 13013 third-party-advisory
- http://secur1ty.net/advisories/001
- 20041027 Multiple Vulnerabilites in Quake II Server mailing-list