Denial of Service Vulnerability in Half-Life Server 1.1.1.0 and Earlier

CVE-2002-0964 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Half-Life Server 1.1.1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via multiple responses to the initial challenge with different cd_key values, which reaches the player limit and prevents other players from connecting until the original responses have timed out.

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