Street Fighter V comes with a giant security hole.


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Arisotura

Posted on 09-24-16 12:44 AM (rev. 2 of 09-24-16 12:48 AM)

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter_v/

Street Fighter V installs a driver (capcom.sys) to prevent players from cheating. The driver allows any program to run code in kernel mode.

It's a giant security hole.

A hefty price for keeping people from cheating.

People are cheating in multiplayer games? Implement the cheat protection in the goddamn server. They don't get it. You never trust the client. Installing shady software on the client's machine is NOT the way to go.

People are cheating in single player games? They play their game however the fuck they want. Don't like it? Fuck off. This kind of dictatorship gets on my nerves.

Anyway, the update that brought that security-hole driver is being rolled back.

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Posted on 09-24-16 01:38 AM

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take your dumb self out of here. thank you.

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What the hell.

It's amazing to see what some companies think is "innovative".

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Posted on 09-25-16 02:47 AM

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I'm not even sure whether or not this is worse than online-only.

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Posted on 09-26-16 10:16 PM

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It's Capcom, what do you expect?

Also, how can they know if you're cheating or not? What if you're setting up a specific server specifically made for cheats (has its own rules) and just screwing around?

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Posted on 09-26-16 10:51 PM

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the driver probably monitors the game's process memory and detects 'bad' changes. dunno.

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Posted on 09-27-16 08:07 PM

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Even if client monitoring is really annoying, you can still do it way better than it was done here. This is basically worst case scenario.

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Posted on 09-27-16 08:09 PM

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Client monitoring shouldn't even be. You don't trust the client. Ever.

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Posted on 09-28-16 08:44 PM

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Yeah. I'm not saying client monitoring is foolproof.

C-lector

Posted on 09-29-16 04:40 AM

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It"s shocking to see how companies are doing things like that so often, at least they are going to revert this.

MusiMasta

Posted on 10-01-16 07:08 AM

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Posted by C-lector
It"s shocking to see how companies are doing things like this

I wouldn't be surprised if companies do this to attain your personal info and email and stuff like that while fulfilling their "designated" functions.

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Posted on 10-02-16 12:56 AM

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Well to be honest I wouldn"t be surprised too, but it"s still shocking even so.

Arisotura

Posted on 10-02-16 01:40 PM

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let's not get into data leak conspiracy theory, kay?

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Posted on 10-02-16 04:56 PM

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I really dont see what problem they have with cheating in single player. Besides, its a fighting game, so cheating should be very limited and unentertaining besides maybe a moon jump.

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Posted on 10-02-16 11:02 PM

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Yes, anyways they always and should manage cheating from server side not from the client side too.

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Posted on 10-12-16 09:20 PM

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Almost as bad as how the 3DS eShop handles security.

Almost.

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Posted on 10-13-16 01:06 AM

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What's eshop's problem?

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Posted on 10-13-16 01:13 AM (rev. 3 of 10-13-16 01:14 AM)

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This is offtopic, but I heard from an acquaintance of mine that the list of games that you own are saved client side on the actual handheld, not server side to an NNID or something like that.

So you could change it to make it that the client says that you own every game, and then, well, you would be able to download any game on the eshop without paying for them.

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Posted on 10-13-16 01:28 AM

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Oh, in that case it's their problem, for street fighter V, the problem is for the players.

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Posted on 10-13-16 07:41 AM

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Still shows that even major companies don't follow good security practices.

Not that it's surprising.

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