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CVE-2012-3436

Published: Oct 9, 2012Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-20
NVD MITRE
5.0CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
3.4%
Top 12.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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."

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:NI:NA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

n/an/a
openttdopenttd
On-prem
Consumer Software / gaming
Debian GNU/LinuxСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
openttdoss-projectConsumer Softwareaka openttd, openttd
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Initial Access
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References

http://secunia.com/advisories/50042
secunia.com
http://security.openttd.org/en/CVE-2012-3436
security.openttd.org
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/28/7
openwall.com
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Timeline

Published
Oct 9, 2012
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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