CVE-2008-3547

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-03-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the server in OpenTTD 0.6.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (persistent game disruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving many long names for "companies and clients."

Affected products

openttd: through 0.6.1; 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4, 0.2.0, 0.2.1 (+42)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/493714
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233929
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=121787604812284&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=121790659421159&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=121797672406282&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=121814230706576&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/34161
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-09.xml
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=617243
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49221
http://bugs.debian.org/493714
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233929

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