CVE-2008-6775 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service on HTC Touch devices by flooding UDP port 9204 with vCards, leading to resource exhaustion and connectivity loss.
- 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-2008-6775?
CVE-2008-6775 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 May 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
HTC Touch Pro and HTC Touch Cruise vCard allows remote attackers to cause denial of service (CPU consumption, SMS consumption, and connectivity loss) via a flood of vCards to UDP port 9204.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-6775?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Htc Touch Cruise, Htc Touch Pro.
How do I fix CVE-2008-6775?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-6775 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-2008-6775 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-6775 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j4cq-cj3p-h367.