Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-5242 - Denial of Service vulnerability in OpenVMS
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL network
hp
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in (1) SYS$EI1000.EXE and (2) SYS$EI1000_MON.EXE in HP OpenVMS 8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (machine crash) via an "oversize" packet, which is not properly discarded if "the device has no remaining buffers after receipt of the first buffer segment."
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 2 |