CVE Catalog

CVE-2003-1432

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Epic Games Unreal Engine versions 226f through 436 are vulnerable to an attack that can lead to denial of service through CPU consumption or crash, and potentially execute arbitrary code. Attackers can exploit a packet with a negative size value, which is treated as a large positive number during memory allocation.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability can lead to significant disruptions in application functionality and allow attackers to execute unauthorized code, posing a serious threat to the security of systems using this engine.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Unreal Engine to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor systems for unauthorized activities.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Epic Games Unreal Engine 226f through 436 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a packet with a negative size value, which is treated as a large positive number during memory allocation, or (2) a negative size value in a package file.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS