Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Gaming Platform Steam

A new report reveals a bug had existed in the gaming client, Steam for at least the past ten years and would have resulted in Remote Code Execution in all 15 million active clients if it was not reported by Information Security firm Context. Context reported the vulnerability to Valve on the February 20, 2018 and it was fixed less than 12 hours later, the Steam Self Updater confirmed this by stating, “Thanks to Tom Court from Context Information Security for reporting this issue”.

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