CVE-2012-3436
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."
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.2.1-2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.2.1-2 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.2.1-2 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.2.1-2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openttd | openttd | 0.6.0 | |
| openttd | openttd | 0.6.1 | |
| openttd | openttd | 0.6.2 | |
| openttd | openttd | 0.6.3 | |
| openttd | openttd | 0.7.0 | |
| openttd | openttd | 0.7.1 | |
| openttd | openttd | 0.7.2 | |
| openttd | openttd | 0.7.3 | |
| openttd | openttd | 0.7.4 | |
| openttd | openttd | 0.7.5 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.0.0 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.0.1 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.0.2 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.0.3 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.0.4 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.0.5 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.1.0 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.1.1 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.1.2 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.1.3 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.1.4 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.1.5 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.2.0 | |
| openttd | openttd | 1.2.1 | |
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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3436
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.