CVE-2008-3409

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-07-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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

Epic Games Unreal Tournament 3: through 1.3; 1.1, 1.2

References

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
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

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