CVE-2004-1869: Nival Interactive Etherlords

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Etherlords I 1.07 and earlier and Etherlords II 1.03 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending a packet that specifies the size for the next packet, then sending a larger packet than specified, which causes Etherlords to read unallocated memory.

Affected products

• Nival Interactive Etherlords: version 1.0 only; version 1.0_1 only; version 1.0_2 only; version 1.0_3 only; version 1.0_4 only; version 1.0_5 only; …
• Nival Interactive Etherlords Ii: version 1.0 only; version 1.0_1 only; version 1.0_2 only; version 1.0_3 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.