metadata/glsa/glsa-200407-14.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200407-14">
  <title>Unreal Tournament 2003/2004: Buffer overflow in 'secure' queries</title>
  <synopsis>
    Game servers based on the Unreal engine are vulnerable to remote code
    execution through malformed 'secure' queries.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Unreal Tournament</product>
  <announced>July 19, 2004</announced>
  <revised>July 19, 2004: 01</revised>
  <bug>54726</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="games-fps/ut2003" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2225-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">2225-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="games-server/ut2003-ded" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2225-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">2225-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="games-fps/ut2004" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3236</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3236</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="games-fps/ut2004-demo" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3120-r4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">3120-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004 are popular first-person-shooter games.
    They are both based on the Unreal engine, and can be used in a game server
    / client setup.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The Unreal-based game servers support a specific type of query called
    'secure'. Part of the Gamespy protocol, this query is used to ask if the
    game server is able to calculate an exact response using a provided string.
    Luigi Auriemma found that sending a long 'secure' query triggers a buffer
    overflow in the game server.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    By sending a malicious UDP-based 'secure' query, an attacker could execute
    arbitrary code on the game server.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    Users can avoid this vulnerability by not using Unreal Tournament to host
    games as a server. All users running a server should upgrade to the latest
    versions.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Unreal Tournament users should upgrade to the latest available
    versions:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync

    # emerge -pv ">=games-fps/ut2003-2225-r3"
    # emerge ">=games-fps/ut2003-2225-r3"

    # emerge -pv ">=games-server/ut2003-ded-2225-r2"
    # emerge ">=games-server/ut2003-ded-2225-r2"

    # emerge -pv ">=games-fps/ut2004-3236"
    # emerge ">=games-fps/ut2004-3236"

    # emerge -pv ">=games-fps/ut2004-demo-3120-r4"
    # emerge ">=games-fps/ut2004-demo-3120-r4"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/unsecure-adv.txt">Luigi Auriemma advisory</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0608">CAN-2004-0608</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>