Critical Steam Flaws Could Let Gamers Crash Opponents’ Computers

2020-12-10 11:00

Valve fixed critical bugs in its Steam gaming client, which is a platform for popular video games like Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Dota2 and Half Life.

Game developer Valve has fixed critical four bugs in its popular Steam online game platform.

If exploited, the flaws could allow a remote attacker to crash an opponent's game client, take over the computer - and hijack all computers connected to a third-party game server.

Researchers disclosed the flaws to Valve in September; the vendor rolled out fixes after three weeks to different Steam games.

One such scenario would include sabotaging online games, in which an attacker is able to crash the server at any time they please, forcing the game to stop for all gamers at once.

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