[SECURITY] [DSA 2442-2] openarena regression

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2442-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer March 31, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian DSA-2442-2 : openarena - UDP traffic amplification

It has been discovered that spoofed 'getstatus' UDP requests are being sent by attackers to servers for use with games derived from the Quake 3 engine such as openarena. These servers respond with a packet flood to the victim whose IP address was impersonated by the attackers, causing a denial of...