Denial of Service Advisory: Fake Players Bug in Half-Life and Others

el statico submits There's a "Fake Players Bug" that can affect multiplayer games like Half-life, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament. An attacker can fill a game server with a custom number of inexistent players (1 player is "emulated" by . . . el statico submits There's a "Fake Players Bug" that can affect multiplayer games like Half-life, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament. An attacker can fill a game server with a custom number of inexistent players (1 player is "emulated" by no more than one or two packets of data) and the server after having reached the maximum number of players will not accept others. The effect is a Denial of Service where the real players cannot use the service offered by the server because it is already full.

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