CVE-2006-0734

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-02-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The SV_CheckForDuplicateNames function in Valve Software Half-Life CSTRIKE Dedicated Server 1.6 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and daemon hang) via a backslash character at the end of a connection string to UDP port 27015.

Affected products

Valve Software Half-Life Cstrike Dedicated Server: through 1.6_linux; through 1.6_windows

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/csdos.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16619
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33505
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/csdos.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16619
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33505

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