National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5010

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109077-21-1

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109077-21-1

External Source: XF

Name: sun-solaris-dhcp-code-execution(46480)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46480

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3088

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3088

External Source: BID

Name: 32213

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32213

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 243806

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-243806-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021157

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1021157

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32668

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32668

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5668

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5668

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5668

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5668