[quake2] Quake2 server vulnerabilities published

Nick Warne nick at linicks.net
Thu Oct 28 13:28:37 EDT 2004


On Thursday 28 October 2004 18:18, Karen Pouelle wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> Just FYI, a list of security vulnerabilities Quake2 was just published:
>
> http://secur1ty.net/advisories/001-Multiple_Vulnerabilites_In_Quake_II_Serv
>er.txt

Good find!  I actually fixed a hack for similar problem #7 way back, as it 
used to crash Quake2 DDay servers (due to long 'time to respawn' after dying 
> 10 seconds or more, CVAR).

Full explanation here:

http://www.nick.ukfsn.org/quake2_dday_shaef/linux/pswd_svr_crash.txt

Nick

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