Screaming Lunatic writes
"There seems to be a big security hole in the Unreal engine that has been around for about 5 years. It affects servers for a number of games and operating systems, including Linux (which accounts for about 40% of UT2003 servers). Epic has been working on a patch for about 3 months. Imagine the bad publicity games would receive if a worm on the scale of Slammer had been created." A Bugtraq post from Thor Larholm of Pivx,
says that Marc Rein of Epic
threatened PivX with "getting
our lawyers involved with this"; the TechTV article Larholm cites (the same one linked from this submission), however, contains no
mention of legal action. Rein
nonetheless apologized for "those completely unfortunate comments" in a followup message to Bugtraq.