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CVE-2020-6018 (GCVE-0-2020-6018)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-02 01:01 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:47
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
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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