CVE-2008-1708 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.3 Published 9 Apr 2008 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Remote attackers can crash the IBM solidDB database daemon by sending a packet with an invalid memory allocation size.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2008-1708?

CVE-2008-1708 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Apr 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM solidDB 06.00.1018 and earlier does not validate a certain field that specifies an amount of memory to allocate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit) via a packet with a large value in this field.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1708?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Soliddb.

How do I fix CVE-2008-1708?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1708 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-2008-1708 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1708 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-648p-mq4j-j46q.