CVE-2020-6016 (GCVE-0-2020-6016)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-11-18 14:11
Modified
2024-08-04 08:47
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-590 - Free of Memory not on the Heap
Summary
Valve's Game Networking Sockets prior to version v1.2.0 improperly handles unreliable segments with negative offsets in function SNP_ReceiveUnreliableSegment(), leading to a Heap-Based Buffer Underflow and a free() of memory not from the heap, resulting in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Game Networking Sockets Version: All versions prior to v1.2.0
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