Remove the unused msg cvar and server side infrastructure.

In Quake I this coould be used to filter messages by priority. id
Software never implemented it for Quake II, it's just a left-over.
Remove it.

The `msg` cvar was exploited in attacks against the client. A malicious
server send a `msg` cvar as stufftext -> it gets saved into the config
-> since it's retrivable over the network through the userinfo stuff
this can be used to track users, etc.
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Yamagi 2023-01-05 18:06:21 +01:00
parent ce2410079e
commit 81647f79ec
5 changed files with 0 additions and 22 deletions

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@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ cvar_t *rate;
cvar_t *fov;
cvar_t *horplus;
cvar_t *windowed_mouse;
cvar_t *msg;
cvar_t *hand;
cvar_t *gender;
cvar_t *gender_auto;
@ -533,7 +532,6 @@ CL_InitLocal(void)
name = Cvar_Get("name", "unnamed", CVAR_USERINFO | CVAR_ARCHIVE);
skin = Cvar_Get("skin", "male/grunt", CVAR_USERINFO | CVAR_ARCHIVE);
rate = Cvar_Get("rate", "8000", CVAR_USERINFO | CVAR_ARCHIVE);
msg = Cvar_Get("msg", "1", CVAR_USERINFO | CVAR_ARCHIVE);
hand = Cvar_Get("hand", "0", CVAR_USERINFO | CVAR_ARCHIVE);
fov = Cvar_Get("fov", "90", CVAR_USERINFO | CVAR_ARCHIVE);
horplus = Cvar_Get("horplus", "1", CVAR_ARCHIVE);

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@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
void CL_ParseStatusMessage(void);
extern cvar_t *msg;
extern cvar_t *rcon_client_password;
extern cvar_t *rcon_address;
extern cvar_t *cl_timeout;

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@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ typedef struct client_s
edict_t *edict; /* EDICT_NUM(clientnum+1) */
char name[32]; /* extracted from userinfo, high bits masked */
int messagelevel; /* for filtering printed messages */
/* The datagram is written to by sound calls, prints,
temp ents, etc. It can be harmlessly overflowed. */

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@ -564,14 +564,6 @@ SV_UserinfoChanged(client_t *cl)
{
cl->rate = 5000;
}
/* msg command */
val = Info_ValueForKey(cl->userinfo, "msg");
if (strlen(val))
{
cl->messagelevel = (int)strtol(val, (char **)NULL, 10);
}
}
/*

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@ -52,11 +52,6 @@ SV_ClientPrintf(client_t *cl, int level, char *fmt, ...)
va_list argptr;
char string[1024];
if (level < cl->messagelevel)
{
return;
}
va_start(argptr, fmt);
vsnprintf(string, sizeof(string), fmt, argptr);
va_end(argptr);
@ -99,11 +94,6 @@ SV_BroadcastPrintf(int level, char *fmt, ...)
for (i = 0, cl = svs.clients; i < maxclients->value; i++, cl++)
{
if (level < cl->messagelevel)
{
continue;
}
if (cl->state != cs_spawned)
{
continue;