CVE-2006-3401: Id Software Quake 3 Engine

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in Quake 3 Engine as used by Quake 3: Arena 1.32b and 1.32c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute code via long CS_ITEMS values.

Affected products

• Id Software Quake 3 Engine: version 1.32b only; version 1.32c only; version icculus_812 only

Published 2006-07-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.