ds3-nrssr-rce VS GTAO_Booster_PoC

Dark Souls III's servers were shut down for over half a year due to an exploit involving missing bounds checks that allowed remote code execution targeted at specific players https://github.com/tremwil/ds3-nrssr-rce

The only thing I could track down about this was a PoC repo demonstrating the exploit. Nothing about actually fixing it.

Everyone should keep in mind that this is the same game whose client-update-handshake-dance largely consisted of an enormous JSON of all the updates that had ever been done to the gamestate, which then got parsed naively. This situation was recognized and patched [0] by an interested third party [1].

Not a slight against the code monkey that implemented it that way, because they surely didn't bother to think about complexity consequences when the gamestate was new and the JSON wasn't 10MB yet, but a slight on Rockstar, because the cash cow that GTA:O turned out to be deserves some fuckin' maintenance, doesn't it? Then again, the eye-popping prevalence of hax0rs in Rockstar games probably ought to signify priorities to even the most casual observer. As others in these comments observe, with what those hackers can achieve, it's not surprising to learn there's RCEs too.

[0] https://github.com/tostercx/GTAO_Booster_PoC

[1] https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

The update was in line with the work of a guy named t0st, who found out why the loading times were so slow in the start and he made a [proof of concept fix](https://github.com/tostercx/GTAO_Booster_PoC) which Rockstar has awarded him $10,000 irl for.

This is an article that reports load times for GTA V PC online were reduced by at least 70% using a mod. Files and instructions to build the mod are found here.

How likely is one to get suspended if one uses the proof of concept for playing the game

The proof of concept source code is on Github.