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Unreal Engine flaws

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Crashes the remote Unreal Engine Game Server

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host was running a game server with the
Unreal Engine on it.

This engine is vulnerable to various attacks which may permit
a possible hacker to use it as a distributed denial of service
source, or to execute arbitrary code on this host.

*** Note that Nessus disabled this service by testing for
*** this flaw

Solution : Epic is supposed to release a patch shortly
Network Security Threat Level: High

See also: http://www.pivx.com/luigi/adv/ueng-adv.txt

Networks Security ID: 6770, 6771, 6772, 6773, 6774, 6775

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Renaud Deraison

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