CVE-2020-6017

2020-12-0313:34:00

CWE-120

checkpoint

www.cve.org

valve

networking sockets

buffer overflow

memory corruption

remote code execution

AI Score

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.009

Percentile

82.8%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Game Networking Sockets",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "All versions prior to v1.2.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]