# CVE-2008-3409: Buffer overflow in Unreal Tournament 3 1.3beta4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and daem

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2008-07-31 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Buffer overflow in Unreal Tournament 3 1.3beta4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a UDP packet containing a large value in a certain size field, followed by a data string of that size, aka attack 1 in ut3mendo.c.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ut3mendo-adv.txt
- http://aluigi.org/poc/ut3mendo.zip
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44105
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2260/references
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494929/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30430
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31265
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32127

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