J-Security Center

Title: Valve Software Half-Life Dedicated Server Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

The Half-Life server is a game server written to act as a centralized server for players of the Half-Life multi-player online video game. Certain versions of this server software for Linux ship with a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the changelevel rcon command and does not require a valid rcon password. The overflow appears to exist after the logging function.

Affected Products:

  • Valve Software Half-Life Dedicated Server 3.1.0

References:

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