CVE-2020-6017

EPSS 3.1%CWE-120

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 3.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

03 Dec 2020Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

Valve's Game Networking Sockets prior to version v1.2.0 improperly handles long unreliable segments in function SNP_ReceiveUnreliableSegment() when configured to support plain-text messages, leading to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow and resulting in a memory corruption and possibly even a remote code execution.

Affected products

n/a · Game Networking Sockets

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References

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/commit/e0c86dcb9139771db3db0cfdb1fb8bef0af19c43 https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/game-on-finding-vulnerabilities-in-valves-steam-sockets/