High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 13, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-6019
CVE-2020-6019
Description
Valve's Game Networking Sockets prior to version v1.2.0 improperly handles inlined statistics messages in function CConnectionTransportUDPBase::Received_Data(), leading to an exception thrown from libprotobuf and resulting in a crash.
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Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:a:valvesoftware:game_networking_sockets:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Range: <1.2.0
- Valve/Game Networking Socketsdescription
- Range: <v1.2.0
Patches
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References
2- github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/commit/d944a10808891d202bb1d5e1998de6e0423af678nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- research.checkpoint.com/2020/game-on-finding-vulnerabilities-in-valves-steam-sockets/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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