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CVE-2010-4168

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in OpenTTD 1.0.x before 1.0.5 allow (1) remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write and daemon crash) by abruptly disconnecting during transmission of the map from the server, related to network/network_server.cpp; (2) remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read and daemon crash) by abruptly disconnecting, related to network/network_server.cpp; and (3) remote servers to cause a denial of service (invalid read and application crash) by forcing a disconnection during the join process, related to network/network.cpp.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 13, 14
• openttd: from 1.0.0 before 1.0.5 — fixed in 1.0.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: openttd 1.0.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052187.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052193.html
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128975491407670&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=128984298802678&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42578
• http://security.openttd.org/en/CVE-2010-4168
• http://security.openttd.org/en/patch/28.patch
• http://vcs.openttd.org/svn/changeset/21182
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44844
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2985
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3199
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052187.html

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