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Unreal Exploit

by Steve Gibson Feb 06, 2003 10:48am CST tags: Unreal Tournament 2003
A recently published report originally spotted by 3DGPU on the BugTraq listing has news of a vulnerability in Epic's Unreal engine that leaves machines open to participate in DDoS attacks and the popular spoofed UDP packets fun. The person who discovered the exploit privately notified Epic nearly 3 months ago which was a sweetheart thing of him to do. However Epic dropped the ball for a bit too long. Bluesnews has a quote and a fix list from Mark Rein on the subject:

I won't sugar coat this. We fucked up on this. Yes this is real and yes this was brought to our attention and yes we should have fixed it by now. We are working on fixing this now and we will have this fixed in an upcoming patch before too long

This exploit works on all Unreal/Unreal2/UT2003 engine based titles, and once Epic has the fix they will make it available to all licensees.

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