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                         Luigi Auriemma

Application: Unreal engine
http://www.unrealtechnology.com
Versions: almost any game which uses the Unreal engine is affected
by this vulnerability except some like Unreal Tournament
2004, Dead Man's Hand and possibly other old games
Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac
Bug: format string
Exploitation: remote, versus client
Date: 11 Sep 2008
Author: Luigi Auriemma
e-mail: [email protected]
web: aluigi.org

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1) Introduction
2) Bug
3) The Code
4) Fix

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1) Introduction

The Unreal engine is the game engine developed by Epic Games
(http://www.epicgames.com) and used in many famous commercial games of
which the main example is just the lucky Unreal Tournament series.

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2) Bug

The Unreal engine is affected by some format string vulnerabilities
which can be exploited by a malicious server when the victim client
connects to it.

The main format string can be exploited through a malformed CLASS
parameter of the DLMGR command but another one seems to be exploitable
through the forcing of the download of a malformed package (PKG).
Some older games instead can be exploited through a malformed LEVEL
parameter of the WELCOME command.

The bug is caused by the calling of _vsnwprintf_s or _vsnwprintf for
building an error message to visualize to the user (for example for a
missing class) using a max size of 4 kilobytes and, naturally, without
passing the needed format argument.

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3) The Code

http://aluigi.org/testz/unrealts.zip
http://aluigi.org/poc/unrealcfs.txt

• unrealts 7777 unrealcfs.txt
  (or "unrealts -x 2 7777 unrealcfs.txt" for the Unreal 3 engine, use
  -x for others)
• open the console of your client (~) and type: open 127.0.0.1:7777

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4) Fix

No fix

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Luigi Auriemma
http://aluigi.org