CVE-2008-3409

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Published Jul 31, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 7.5 High EPSS 11.0% KEV · Not listed

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.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:epic_games:unreal_tournament_3::beta_4::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:epic_games:unreal_tournament_3:1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:epic_games:unreal_tournament_3:1.2:::::::*

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

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Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

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Exploit prediction score: 11.0% (11.015% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

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

History

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Subscriptions

Epic Games Unreal Tournament 3

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 9:37 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Jul 31, 2008, 5:00 PM
Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 9:37 AM
Reserved: Jul 31, 2008, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 10:55 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Jul 31, 2008, 5:41 PM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 10:55 PM

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