Valve: Specially Crafted Closed Captions File can lead to Remote Code Execution in CS:GO and other Source Games

With a specially crafted closed captions file, the parser calls CHudCloseCaption::GetNoRepeatValue which in turn calls CHudCloseCaption::SplitCommand which has no boundary checks allowing the on stack variables cmd and args to be overflowed which in turn allows Remote Code Execution. Buffer...

Traffic amplification via Quake 3-based servers

It has been discovered that spoofed "getstatus" UDP requests are being used by attackers0123 to direct status responses from multiple Quake 3-based servers to a victim, as a traffic amplification mechanism for a denial of service attack on that victim. Open-source games derived from the Quake 3...