Unreal Engine 226f/433/436 secure Query memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Unreal Engine 226f/433/436. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component secure Query Handler. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-0608. The attack can be launched remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. Restrictive firewalling should be applied.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Unreal Engine 226f/433/436. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component secure Query Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Unreal Engine, as used in DeusEx 1.112fm and earlier, Devastation 390 and earlier, Mobile Forces 20000 and earlier, Nerf Arena Blast 1.2 and earlier, Postal 2 1337 and earlier, Rune 107 and earlier, Tactical Ops 3.4.0 and earlier, Unreal 1 226f and earlier, Unreal II XMP 7710 and earlier, Unreal Tournament 451b and earlier, Unreal Tournament 2003 2225 and earlier, Unreal Tournament 2004 before 3236, Wheel of Time 333b and earlier, and X-com Enforcer, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a UDP packet containing a secure query with a long value, which overwrites memory.

The bug was discovered 05/24/2004. The weakness was disclosed 06/18/2004 by Luigi Auriemma (Website). The advisory is available at aluigi.altervista.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-0608 since 06/29/2004. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in ZIP Archive and been published 21 hours after the advisory. The exploit is available at aluigi.altervista.org. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 25 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14547 (GLSA-200407-14 : Unreal Tournament 2003/2004: Buffer overflow in 'secure' queries), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at securityfocus.com.Addressing this vulnerability is possible by firewalling . The best possible mitigation is suggested to be applying a restrictive firewalling. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 3080. In this case the pattern |5C|secure|5C| is used for detection. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 2866.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (16451), Exploit-DB (16848), Tenable (14547), SecurityFocus (BID 10570†) and OSVDB (7217†). heise.de is providing further details. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
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Nessus ID: 14547
Nessus Name: GLSA-200407-14 : Unreal Tournament 2003/2004: Buffer overflow in 'secure' queries
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OpenVAS ID: 54621
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200407-14 (Unreal Tournament)
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MetaSploit ID: ut2004_secure.rb
MetaSploit Name: Unreal Tournament 2004 secure Overflow (Win32)
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Recommended: Firewall
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Patch: securityfocus.com

Snort ID: 3080
Snort Message: MISC Unreal Tournament secure overflow attempt
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Suricata ID: 2103080
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: aluigi.altervista.org
Researcher: Luigi Auriemma
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-0608 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0608
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-722
X-Force: 16451 - Unreal Game Engine secure query command execution, High Risk
SecurityFocus: 10570 - Epic Games Unreal Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia: 11900 - Unreal Engine "secure" Query Buffer Overflow Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 7217 - Unreal Engine Secure Query Remote Overflow
SecuriTeam: securiteam.com
Vulnerability Center: 4649 - Unreal Game Engine Allows Code Execution via UDP Query Packet to the Server, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/22/2004 16:29
Updated: 01/01/2025 17:45
Changes: 06/22/2004 16:29 (113), 06/28/2019 18:07 (7), 01/01/2025 17:45 (22)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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