CVE-2012-3436

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

OpenTTD 0.6.0 through 1.2.1 does not properly validate requests to clear a water tile, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and server crash) via a certain sequence of steps related to "the water/coast aspect of tiles which also have railtracks on one half."

Affected products

openttd: 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.6.3, 0.7.0, 0.7.1 (+32)

References

http://bugs.openttd.org/task/5254
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00043.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50042
http://security.openttd.org/en/CVE-2012-3436
http://vcs.openttd.org/svn/changeset/24439
http://vcs.openttd.org/svn/changeset/24449
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/27/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/28/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/31/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54720
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77266
http://bugs.openttd.org/task/5254

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