{"id":7997,"date":"2006-05-10T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/?p=7997"},"modified":"2020-06-10T10:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T08:46:59","slug":"two-security-vulnerabilities-in-the-quake3-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/news\/two-security-vulnerabilities-in-the-quake3-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Two security vulnerabilities in the Quake3 engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two major security vulnerabilities in the Quake3 engine. The first is included in the client and allows malicious server admins to execute arbitrary malicious code on players&#8217; computers. The second makes it possible to download any files from servers, provided that they have the <em>sv_allowdownload<\/em> parameter set to 1.<\/p>\n<p>Id has released an update for both bugs. Since World of Padman uses the Quake3 engine, our PadMod is also affected by these errors. I can only strongly advise to install the updates. You can find the advisory on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/archive\/1\/433349\/30\/0\/threaded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">securityfocus.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two major security vulnerabilities in the Quake3 engine. The first is included in the client and allows malicious server admins to execute arbitrary malicious code on players&#8217; computers. The second makes it possible to download any files from servers, provided that they have the sv_allowdownload parameter set to 1. Id has released an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7999,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions\/7999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldofpadman.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}