# 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.

- **Severity:** Critical 10.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Nov 2008
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fjwq-7gw5-8qvv

## 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: 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.

## 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:

- Ubuntu 6.06 - DHCPd Remote Denial of Service (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in Sun Opensolaris

- [CVE-2009-2296](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-2296/): Missing authorization in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-0964](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-0964/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2008-0965](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-0965/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2008-7300](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-7300/): Security feature bypass in n/a (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2009-4190](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-4190/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-5010 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-5010 exists.

Affected product: Sun Opensolaris. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5010/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5010/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5010
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5010
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5010

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