CVE-2008-0084 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-0084?

CVE-2008-0084 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Vista, published on 12 Feb 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the TCP/IP support in Microsoft Windows Vista allows remote DHCP servers to cause a denial of service (hang and restart) via a crafted DHCP packet.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-0084?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows Vista.

How do I fix CVE-2008-0084?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-0084 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-2008-0084 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-0084 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Vista

• CVE-2007-5351 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3145 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2008-0951 Security feature bypass in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2007-1658 Path traversal in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2007-1534 Misconfiguration in n/a Critical 9.3

All Microsoft Windows Vista vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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