CVE-2008-5010

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-10 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: through snv_102; snv_01, snv_02, snv_03, snv_04, snv_05, snv_06 (+95)
Sun Solaris: 8, 9, 10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32668
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021157
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109077-21-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-243806-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32213
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3088
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46480
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5668
http://secunia.com/advisories/32668
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021157
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-109077-21-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-243806-1

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