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<glsa id="200609-03">
  <title>OpenTTD: Remote Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    The OpenTTD server is vulnerable to a remote Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">openttd</product>
  <announced>2006-09-06</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-09-06</revised>
  <bug>131010</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="games-simulation/openttd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.4.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.4.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    OpenTTD is a clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    OpenTTD is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to a flaw in
    the manner the game server handles errors in command packets.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An authenticated attacker can cause a Denial of Service by sending an
    invalid error number to a vulnerable OpenTTD server.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All OpenTTD users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=games-simulation/openttd-0.4.8"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1998">CVE-2006-1998</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1999">CVE-2006-1999</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-09-05T13:05:28Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-09-05T18:04:07Z">
    daxomatic
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-09-06T14:54:55Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>
