Hacker Exploits Bugs In Original ‘Doom’ Code to Run ‘Snake’ Inside the Game

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For years, people have found ways to play the classic 1990s game Doom on anything from McDonald's cash registers, to billboard trucks, and even iPhone hacking devices.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7m54j/hacker-exploits-bugs-in-original-doom-code-to-run-snake-inside-the-game
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I’m surprised Lorenzo didn’t mention that there was also a Doom CVE issued last year with a 9.8 critical which is about as high as you can get and normally means drop everything and patch now lol.

It’s actually a really simple classic bug involving fscanf and would make for a great lesson on the importance of making sure you put in a max value check especially when it comes to dealing with user input. Would be a fun one to mention and demo in any intro to CS class.