VUPEN Security - Unreal Tournament 2004 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Title : Unreal Tournament 2004 Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2259
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3396
CWE ID : CWE-476
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-07-31

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A vulnerability has been identified in Unreal Tournament 2004, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by a NULL pointer dereference error when processing malformed packets, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash a vulnerable server, creating a denial of service condition.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Luigi Auriemma.

ChangeLog

2008-07-31 : Initial release

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