Some versions of Unreal3.2.8.1.tar.gz contain a backdoor

rbanffy · on June 13, 2010

For a moment, I thought he was talking about the game...

dRother · on June 13, 2010

Me too, I was thinking about how I was looking for an upgrade to the Linux UT 2003 a while back and couldn't find it on the official site. I decided downloading it from some random place was risky, and here was almost my reinforcing, validating catharsis - but alas, it's just about some IRC client that nobody uses.

daeken · on June 13, 2010

Err, this isn't an IRC client, but an IRC server. I don't know about this specific version, but the unreal ircd is quite well used. This is big news.

_tggb · on June 13, 2010

Yup, very bad for a lot of smaller IRC networks; 3.2.8.1 is the latest version of UnrealIRCd and what most of them (assuming that they are up to date) are on.

rbanffy · on June 13, 2010

It was a very good game. A couple months back I found the original (Windows) CD and wanted to install it on my Linux netbook, but, unfortunately, couldn't find it. Gave up completely.

buster · on June 13, 2010

That's what MD5 sums should really be more often used.

marbu · on June 13, 2010

I don't think so. Checksumming is useful for detection of errors during download. When it comes to security, we have pgp.