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

> Remote attackers can crash or hang the IBM HMC RMC daemon by sending a packet with an invalid length, causing denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **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-5jc8-p25f-c6mc

## 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: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-0178/): Other in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-6293](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-6293/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2026-12943](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-12943/): This Power Hardware Management Console update is being released to address (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-1950](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1950/): IBM Hardware Management Console - Power Systems command execution (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2009-1806](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-1806/): Other in n/a (critical 9.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-5035 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: n/a. 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-2008-5035/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5035/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5035
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5035
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5035

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