CVE-2006-1998

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-04-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

OpenTTD 0.4.7 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (application exit) via a large invalid error number, which triggers an error.

Affected products

openttd: 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4, 0.2.0, 0.2.1 (+13)

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/openttdx-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/19768
http://secunia.com/advisories/21799
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-03.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431871/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17661
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1480
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26000
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/openttdx-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/19768
http://secunia.com/advisories/21799
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-03.xml

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