7217 : Unreal Engine Secure Query Remote Overflow
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Timeline

Discovery Date Disclosure Date Exploit Publish Date
2004-05-24 2004-06-18 2004-06-18
Time to Exploit
25 days

Keywords

UDP port 7787

Description

The Unreal Engine contains a flaw that may be exploited by a malicious user to cause a buffer overflow. The issue is triggered when a remote attacker sends an excessively long value to a game server via the GameSpy 'secure' query protocol. It is possible that the flaw may allow remote code execution or denial of service.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity, Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public, Exploit Commercial

Technical

The Unreal Engine is used by multiple games. This vulnerability was published as affecting games of less than or equal to current patch versions across multiple platforms. Given both these facts, and the fact that individual titles could not verified independently by OSVDB, individual products were not listed with this entry.

The list of affected games from the original vulnerability report:

- DeusEx
- Devastation
- Mobile Forces
- Nerf Arena Blast
- Postal 2
- Rune
- Tactical Ops
- TNN Pro Hunter (?)
- Unreal 1
- Unreal II XMP
- Unreal Tournament
- Unreal Tournament 2003
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Wheel of Time
- X-com Enforcer

The list of unaffected games from the original vulnerability report:

- America's Army
- Dead man's hand
- Magic Battlegrounds
- Rainbow Six: Raven Shield
- Splinter Cell: Pandora tomorrow
- Star Trek: Klingon Honor Guard
- Unreal Tournament 2004 >= 3236
- XIII

Please realize that more (or less) game products may or may not be affected.

Solution

Upgrade to UnrealTournament 2004 version 3236 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. There are no other upgrades or patches known to fix the vulnerability at this time.

It may be possible to correct the flaw or prevent exploitation by implementing one or more workaround(s). Links are provided as Other Solution URL's in the external references section.

Products

Epic Games, Inc.
Watch-list
Unreal Engine
Watch-list
Unknown or Unspecified

References

Tools & Filters

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Snort

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Credit

  • Luigi Auriemma - aluigialtervista.org - http://aluigi.altervista.org

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

Access_vector_2 Access_complexity_2 Authentication_2 Confidentiality_impact_2 Integrity_impact_2 Availability_impact_2

Blogs

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