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aluigi, posted Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:24 pm (12)

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Basically the attackers can upload files (dll in this specific exploitation) on clients and servers of Gmod and other Source games:

http://steamcommunity.com/games/garrysm ... 2135333176

Some notes:

• the changelog is dated end of April 2014
• it's stated that the bug still affects the games based on the Source engine
• it has been actively exploited in the wild = very very very bad
• "As far as we are aware the exploit wasn't used to do anything malicious beyond propagating itself, spamming chat and changing server names"

I guess that the issue is somewhat related to these old vulnerabilities dated 2009, yes 5 years ago:
http://aluigi.org/adv/sourceupfile-adv.txt
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=854605

It's not the first time that I see security issues affecting the Source engine that are partially fixed or can be replicated in other ways.

MikeTF2, posted Thu Jan 14, 2016 12:17 am (10818)

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It seems like an alternative version of the bug has surfaced and being used. There are a lot of threads and other things going around so I'm not positive about anything, and I haven't seen any of the videos before they were taken down, but I would not be surprised, since it is far from the first time Valve's bandaid patches have not worked.

More related info: https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t= ... st49521034