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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