CVE-2005-0963 Denial of service in n/a
A flaw in Toshiba ACPI BIOS prevents booting if the active partition is not in the first MBR slot, requiring administrative access to trigger.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2005-0963?
CVE-2005-0963 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Apr 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An error in the Toshiba ACPI BIOS 1.6 causes the BIOS to only examine the first slot in the Master Boot Record (MBR) table for an active partition, which prevents the system from booting even though the MBR is not malformed. NOTE: it has been debated as to whether or not this issue poses a security vulnerability, since administrative privileges would be required, and other DoS attacks are possible with such privileges.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-0963?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Toshiba Acpi Flash Bios.
How do I fix CVE-2005-0963?
No fix has been published for CVE-2005-0963 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2005-0963 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-0963 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r3gm-hf7r-pmjr.