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Funnily enough the same group found a wormable exploit in Valve's Alien Swarm, a mostly forgotten game with a tiny playerbase, and Valve fixed it in 3 months.
by jsheard 6y ago
Funnily enough the same group found a wormable exploit in Valve's Alien Swarm, a mostly forgotten game with a tiny playerbase, and Valve fixed it in 3 months.
https://secret.club/2020/10/30/alien-swarm-rce.html https://secret.club/2020/10/30/alien-swarm-rce.html
Meanwhile CS:GO, their flagship game with over a million daily peak players, has numerous wormable RCEs reported and ignored for as long as 2 years.
Valve works in mysterious ways.
- hn8788 6y agoI think the difference with this exploit is that according to the people who found the exploit, it affects all Valve games that use the Source engine, not just CS:GO like the article says. Trying to fix it could end up breaking multiple games if it's done incorrectly.