Luigi Auriemma

Hi.. I hope that this is the right place to p0st this message.. Anyway.. I've been playing T3 for the longest time unitl someone got a hold of a script that allows him to over flow our game buffer in a blink of an eye.. Is there any way to Counteract his script (or anything that would lock him out of our servers)? I really do love the game.. stopped playing it for months due to the game being hacked by the script that sends about 30 A's to the T3 game. I've notified Atari about this issue, but they will not support the game anymore. There are lots of youngsters that really enjoyed playing.. I live alone and the game gave me another dimension to my life. Please.. If you can help us, we'd greatly appreciate it.

The script is at this link location:

http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/ ... /0153.html

1. you came to the right place to 'p0st' this message i suppose, luigi did find the bug, it's on his proof of concept page, http://aluigi.altervista.org/poc.htm
2. uh T3 doesn't have a ban system? oh that must suck
3. 30 A's, no i'd go with 50x that
4. atari doesn't support anything anymore :D they bailed in 1980's hehe
5. i know how u feel i'm trying to fix q3msgboom for jk2 1.02 right now :S
6. youngsters...? hahaha :) everyone enjoys video games
7. i looked on luigi's patches page and i didn't see any fixes or work-arounds for this thing
8. i dont know if its a 'script' since it appears it can be run through command prompt
9. i haven't played this game ever so idk how it works... usually. you have a server and a file that the server runs off of, do u know if the bug is in the 'server' or the 'file' and is there an open source for this game?

Uhmmm fixes those 2 bugs is not the most easy thing to the world mainly because I no longer have the full game.

I could try to patch the demo and then porting the fix on the 1.16 executable but sincerely I don't know how.

At the moment the most lame way to avoid the crashes is avoiding the port forwarding of the server's port on your router and activating (if not automatic) the NAT negotiation in the game.
In this way the valid players will be able to join your server but who uses proof-of-concept will not able to crash your server.