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CVE-2020-6018

Published: Dec 2, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Valve's Game Networking Sockets prior to version v1.2.0 improperly handles long encrypted messages in function AES_GCM_DecryptContext::Decrypt() when compiled using libsodium, leading to a Stack-Based Buffer Overflow and resulting in a memory corruption and possibly even a remote code execution.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	Game Networking Sockets	affected `All versions prior to v1.2.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/commit/bea84e2844b647532a9b7fbc3a6a8989d66e49e3

x_refsource_MISC

https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/game-on-finding-vulnerabilities-in-valves-steam-sockets/

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