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CVE-2020-6019 (GCVE-0-2020-6019)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-13 15:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:47
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Summary
Valve'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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Game Networking Sockets Affected: All versions prior to v1.2.0
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