why does the source code for CSGO and TF2 being leaked mean that servers may be unsafe to play on? Like, what does the source code allow people to do that they couldn’t do before?
In: Technology
What people are mainly afraid of, to my knowledge, is hackers using Remote Code Execution to screw with your computer. With the source code being leaked, people can see the vulnerabilities that they can exploit and write programs that let them run their own scripts that can force the game to execute code on other people’s computers. This opens up a lot of possibilities for using the game’s servers to do unsavory things to other people, from crashing their game to infecting their computer with malware to deleting their files. Crazy stuff, though a lot of this comes from my pre-existing knowledge of RCE from Heartbleed (a similar bug in OpenSSL from 6 years ago that largely worked the same way, using a vulnerability in the software to execute code remotely on people’s computers).
Latest Answers