Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.11211
Category:	Useless services
Title:	GameSpy detection
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is running a GameSpy server. This service is used to host a gaming server. It turns out that since these server use UDP as their transport layer, an attacker may misuse them so that they flood a third party host, as they send multiple UDP packets in reply to one request, by sending a spoofed UDP packet with the IP address of their target as the source field. An attacker may use this service and network connection as a mean to flood a third party host. Solution : Filter incoming traffic to this port, or disable this service Risk factor : Medium See also: http://www.pivx.com/kristovich/adv/mk001/
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 6636
Copyright	This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Renaud Deraison

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