Description
The Serious engine, as used in (1) Alpha Black Zero Intrepid Protocol 1.04 and earlier, (2) Nitro family, and (3) Serious Sam Second Encounter 1.07 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via a large number of UDP join requests that exceeds the maximum player limit, as originally reported for Alpha Black Zero.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Alpha Black Zero 1.04 - Remote Denial of Service EDB-605 · dos · Mar 3, 2004 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 1011454 vdb-entry
- 12687 third-party-advisory
- 11279 vdb-entry
- 20041128 Players overflow in Serious engine UDP (was Alpha Black Zero, 29 Sep 2004) mailing-list
- 20040929 Crash in Alpha Black Zero 1.04 mailing-list
- alphablackzero-udp-packet-dos(17545) vdb-entry