CVE-2008-3409 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2008-07-31

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 26.5% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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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 vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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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

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.26472.

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

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-07-31T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:37:26.961Z

Reserved: 2008-07-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-3409

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-07-31T17:41:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-3409

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-119

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