Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Quake II server before R1Q2 on Linux, as used in multiple products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a download command with a full pathname for a directory in the argument, which causes the server to crash when it cannot read data.
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17893
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11551
http://web.archive.org/web/20041130092749/www.r1ch.net/stuff/r1q2/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011979
http://secur1ty.net/advisories/001
http://secunia.com/advisories/13013
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-10/0299.html