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posted by martyb on Friday July 21 2017, @03:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the Own-to-Pwn dept.

Vice's Motherboard reports that an exploit in the popular online game Counter-Strike led to potential execution of specially crafted malware:

The researcher found that the Source engine could be exploited by loading malicious code into a custom asset within a player-made map. Games sometimes allow players to make custom maps for online play. In these maps, players can load custom assets such as textures, character skins, or ragdoll models...

A hacker could create a malicious ragdoll model, load it into his or her game, invite people to join, and then frag them to trigger the exploit and hack into their computer, according to Justin Taft, the researcher who found and reported the vulnerability.


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @04:42PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @04:42PM (#542444)

    ...and then frag them to trigger the exploit...

    So just don't get fragged.
    Scrubs.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @04:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @04:54PM (#542448)

    I tried to merge in your advice but it won't do a clean update. S.O. doesn't have much either.

  • (Score: 2) by Lagg on Friday July 21 2017, @05:56PM

    by Lagg (105) on Friday July 21 2017, @05:56PM (#542483) Homepage Journal

    My main is global elite bruh. I know my shit

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