July 20, 2017 By Catalin Cimpanu
A vulnerability in Valve's Source SDK, a library used by game vendors to support custom mods and other features, allows a malicious actor to execute code on a user's computer, and optionally install malware, such as ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, banking trojans, and others.
The issue came to light today when security researcher Justin Taft of One Up Security published a report detailing his findings.
The vulnerability is a simple buffer overflow in the Source SDK. The buffer overflow can be exploited by an attacker to append a piece of malicious code and execute it on a targeted machine.
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