CVE-2020-6019

Summary

CVECVE-2020-6019
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-13 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-11-03 17:51:00 UTC
DescriptionValve's Game Networking Sockets prior to version v1.2.0 improperly handles inlined statistics messages in function CConnectionTransportUDPBase::Received_Data(), leading to an exception thrown from libprotobuf and resulting in a crash.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Valvesoftware Game Networking Sockets All All All All
Application Valvesoftware Game Networking Sockets All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Game On - Finding vulnerabilities in Valve’s “Steam Sockets” - Check Point Research MISC research.checkpoint.com
Tweak pointer math to avoid possible integer overflow · ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets@d944a10 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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