Unreal Tournament Server malformed packet denial of service
| ut-packet-dos (11302) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Unreal Tournament Server is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A remote attacker could send a malformed packet to the game server to consume all available memory resources on the server.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 6, 2008.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Feb 11 2003 - 11:15:00 CST: Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Feb 11 2003 - 13:31:35 CST: Re: Epic Games threatens to sue security researchers.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Feb 05 2003 - 06:58:07 CST : Unreal engine: results of my research .
- BID-6770: Epic Games Unreal Engine Memory Consumption Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- Epic Games Unreal Tournament Server 436 and prior
Reported:
Feb 05, 2003
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