Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-6016 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Valvesoftware Game Networking Sockets 1.0.0/1.1.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Valve's Game Networking Sockets prior to version v1.2.0 improperly handles unreliable segments with negative offsets in function SNP_ReceiveUnreliableSegment(), leading to a Heap-Based Buffer Underflow and a free() of memory not from the heap, resulting in a memory corruption and probably even a remote code execution.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 |