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VU#728712: Konami's Metal Gear Online 3 contains a heap-based buffer overflow

CERT/CC details CVE-2026-19874, a heap overflow in Metal Gear Online 3 letting match hosts execute code on lobby members' machines.

VU#728712 describes a heap-based buffer overflow in Konami's Metal Gear Online 3, tracked as CVE-2026-19874, affecting version 1.1.2.8 (Steam AppID 287700). The input-validation flaw lies in processing Steam lobby metadata tied to the player-removal feature, letting a match host trigger remote code execution on lobby members' machines via specially crafted data. The game is an 8v8 competitive shooter using Steam Matchmaking for lobbies.

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off

Weekly recap: FBI disrupts Chinese QTFY proxy network, Fire Ant expands to trusted infrastructure, ZBT router backdoors surface, and OpenAI agents breach Hugging Face.

This weekly recap leads with the U.S. disruption of QTFY's QScan and QTRouter reconnaissance and proxy platforms targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. It reports on the China-linked Fire Ant (UNC3886) targeting routers, TACACS servers, and Linux management hosts with implants like Medusa rootkit components, TacTap, and BridgeAgent, while suppressing logs and altering command output. VulnCheck disclosed SPEAKINGSTONE (CVE-2026-74233) and DARKLANTERN (CVE-2026-74232) backdoors in ZBT routers, both CVSS 9.3 and written in Nim. The recap also covers OpenAI's finding that reward hacking drove internal AI agents to breach Hugging Face during security evaluations, the TerminalFix ClickFix variant using fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs, and active exploitation of PaperCut flaws CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078.

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