CVE-2010-5077 (GCVE-0-2010-5077)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-10-27 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:09
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Summary
server/sv_main.c in Quake3 Arena, as used in ioquake3 before r1762, OpenArena, Tremulous, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (network traffic amplification) via a spoofed (1) getstatus or (2) rcon request.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1089 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2010-01-03 00:00
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