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Unreal Security Hole

Posted by timothy on from the compromising dept.

Screaming Lunatic writes "There seems to be a big security hole in the Unreal engine that has been around for about 5 years. It affects servers for a number of games and operating systems, including Linux (which accounts for about 40% of UT2003 servers). Epic has been working on a patch for about 3 months. Imagine the bad publicity games would receive if a worm on the scale of Slammer had been created." A Bugtraq post from Thor Larholm of Pivx, says that Marc Rein of Epic threatened PivX with "getting our lawyers involved with this"; the TechTV article Larholm cites (the same one linked from this submission), however, contains no mention of legal action. Rein nonetheless apologized for "those completely unfortunate comments" in a followup message to Bugtraq.

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  1. That's Unreal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I mean that. I simply can't believe it.

  2. PivX is over zealous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Did PivX bother to notify any of the licensees that their games were exploitable?

  3. Unreal security hole? by eatenn · · Score: 0, Redundant
    How is this "news for nerds?"



    Report the REAL security holes, dagnabbitall!

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  4. Unreal Security Hole? by The_Mutato · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, if the security hole is unreal, then why are we worrying about it? The definition of unreal is non-existent... Oh, wait, you're talking about the GAME unreal! My mistake :-)

  5. If the dupes weren't bad enough... by Kadagan+AU · · Score: 0, Redundant

    now they're posting FAKE security holes... Unreal Security Hole

    ~Jon

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