CVE-2012-0049 Denial of service in openttd

What is CVE-2012-0049?

CVE-2012-0049 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 7 Nov 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenTTD before 1.1.5 contains a Denial of Service (slow read attack) that prevents users from joining the server.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0049?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Openttd Openttd.

How do I fix CVE-2012-0049?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-0049 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0049 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0049, GHSA-x2hx-2frv-429m.