CVE-2005-0983 Information

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 the remaining data as if it were network data.

Reference

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3msgboom-adv.txt http://bani.anime.net/banimod/forums/viewtopic.php?p=27322 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111246796918067&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/14811 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12976