CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0964

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-10-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-10-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• valve software half-life 1.1.0.4 • valve software half-life 1.1.0.8 • valve software half-life 1.1.0.9 • valve software half-life 1.1.1.0 • valve software half-life dedicated server (<= 3.1) • valve software half-life dedicated server 3.1.3

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