CVE-2008-5010 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the Solaris DHCP daemon via crafted requests, causing a denial of service.
- 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-2008-5010?
CVE-2008-5010 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in Sun Opensolaris, published on 10 Nov 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
in.dhcpd in the DHCP implementation in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_103, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via unknown DHCP requests related to the "number of offers," aka Bug ID 6713805.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5010?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Opensolaris, Sun Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2008-5010?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-5010 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-2008-5010 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-5010 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fjwq-7gw5-8qvv.