APP: Unreal Gamespy Query Protocol Buffer Overflow

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability against the GameSpy query protocol supported by Unreal game engine. Attackers can crash a game server running the Unreal game engine, or execute arbitrary code with permissions of the user running the server.

Extended Description

Unreal Engine is reportedly prone to a memory corruption vulnerability. This issue presents itself when a remote attacker sends an excessive value to a vulnerable game server through a '\secure\' query. An attacker can exploit this issue to potentially overwrite sensitive memory addresses leading to a variety of attacks including denial of service and possible remote code execution.

Affected Products

Epic_games unreal_engine

References

BugTraq: 10570

CVE: CVE-2004-0608

URL: http://aluigi.altervista.org/papers/gsmsalg.h http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-06/0335.html

Short Name

APP:GAME:UNREAL-GAMESPY-QP-BOF

Severity

Major

Recommended

False

Recommended Action

Drop

APP: Unreal Gamespy Query Protocol Buffer Overflow

Extended Description

Affected Products

References

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