A vulnerability has been released for Counter Strike Global Offensive

Summary:

A vulnerability has been found in the popular computer game
Counter strike Global offensive that allows an remote attacker to
execute remote code without the users permission.

Affected systems

• Counter strike global offensive prior to 1.37.1.1

The vulnerability has been given the CVE of CVE-2019-15943.

Vulnerability

A vulnerability can be exploited by creating a counter strike private server and
sending a malicious crafted map that causes a memory overflow which
if correctly exploited a malicious payload can be executed.

The author has published the Proof of concept on github

External links:
Github CVE-2019-15943
Counter strike release log
Counter Strike Wikipedia

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