CVE-2008-4510 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can crash Windows Vista systems by repeatedly accessing protected memory pages, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-4510?
CVE-2008-4510 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Vista, published on 9 Oct 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Microsoft Windows Vista Home and Ultimate Edition SP1 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (page fault and system crash) via multiple attempts to access a virtual address in a PAGE_NOACCESS memory page.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4510?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Windows Vista.
How do I fix CVE-2008-4510?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4510 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-2008-4510 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-4510 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Vista
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j64f-2fpg-mxgc.