PT-2020-18894
CVE-2020-6019
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Published
2020-11-13
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Updated
2022-11-03
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.5
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Valve's Game Networking Sockets versions prior to v1.2.0
Description
The issue arises from improper handling of inlined statistics messages in the
CConnectionTransportUDPBase::Received Data() function, leading to an exception thrown from libprotobuf and resulting in a crash.Recommendations
For versions prior to v1.2.0, update to version v1.2.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the
CConnectionTransportUDPBase::Received Data() function until a patch is available. Found an issue in the description? Have something to add? Feel free to write us 👾