No thanks... I'll wait for Valve to provide such a change in the engine.dll ....
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Saul Rennison <[email protected]>wrote: > I was speaking to him yesterday on IRC, if you really want I will post a > screenshot of the patcher I will post one. All it does is modify a byte in > the *engine.dll*. To be specific, the 'l' (the value of A2C_PRINT) is > changed to a \0. > > 2009/5/4 Bengt Rosenberger <[email protected]> > > > Posting for the first time, talking about using exploits and then > > offering a patch.exe... Yeah, I will totally install it - NOT. > > > > The plugin posted here works and is safe. > > > > Lauri Koivunen schrieb: > > > (first time with mailing lists so if this goes somewhere where it > > shouldn't > > > then just disregard this post) > > > > > > It seems that action was the best technique. > > > My apologies goes towards the 10 servers that I brought down for ~30 > > seconds > > > to make something happen. I hope I didn't cause any major damage. > > > > > > As Unknownzd stated they wouldn't listen to "us" and now if it doesn't > > get > > > "fixed" I don't know what to do. > > > I thought it would be better to just bring down 10 servers instead of > > > releasing the exploit to public. Congratulations for revealing it > here... > > A > > > lot of servers are much safer now. > > > > > > I was rather shocked that my small DoS got so much attention. I > wouldn't > > > even have noticed 30 seconds freeze on my own servers at all. > > > Sorry again to everyone who I harmed, at least now something happened > > > instead of the exploit report staying on some valve employee's mailbox > > doing > > > nothing. > > > > > > Here's a small patch as a temporary fix I was offering for the people > who > > > joined the irc channel: > > > easy-share.com/1905012260/patch.exe > > > For all those suspicious people ( > > > http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/6422efb688fb2321362045b27c9e687d ) > > the > > > file is just a patcher. > > > It just patches one byte in the hex editor which you could easily do in > a > > > hex editor. This is just for the desperate server owners like me > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > - Saul. > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
