CVE-2015-4016 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-4016?

CVE-2015-4016 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 20 May 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The client detection protocol in Valve Steam allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted response to a broadcast packet.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4016?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Valvesoftware Steam Client.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4016?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-4016 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-4016 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4016 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2021-30481 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.0
• CVE-2020-15530 Race condition in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2019-17180 Path traversal in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2019-15315 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2015-7985 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6m3m-x8f4-hwpp.