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Well sure, but the whole game itself is already executing whatever arbitrary code it wants.

• mike_hock 7y ago
  The game is on disk, doesn't execute until I choose to, and only executes the code that is there, on disk, for me to see. Unless it has a front door like this built in, of course.
  • throwaway675309 7y ago
    I get what you're driving at, but unfortunately with auto-updating game platform delivery systems like Steam, this is sort of the way the world works. I'm sure there are dozens of MMOs with the same arbitrary code execution. Hell, if you're using any browser extensions in firefox/chrome, you're effectively open to the same vulnerabilities. (which did in fact happen, somebody's Chrome dev account was hacked and malicious code was injected into the extension which affected all end users).