CVE-2008-5035 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-5035?

CVE-2008-5035 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 10 Nov 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC) daemon in IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) 7 release 3.2.0 SP1 and 3.3.0 SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a packet with an invalid length.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5035?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Hardware Management Console.

How do I fix CVE-2008-5035?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-5035 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-2008-5035 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5035 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2009-0178 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2007-6293 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2026-12943 This Power Hardware Management Console update is being released to address Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-1950 IBM Hardware Management Console - Power Systems command execution Critical 9.3
• CVE-2009-1806 Other in n/a Critical 9.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5jc8-p25f-c6mc.