CVE-2008-5712
Published Dec 24, 2008
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The HTML parser in KDE Konqueror 3.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a long COLOR attribute in an HR element; or a long (a) BGCOLOR or (b) BORDERCOLOR attribute in a (2) TABLE, (3) TD, or (4) TR element. NOTE: the FONT vector is already covered by CVE-2008-4514.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-20
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Vendor comments
- Red HatRed Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror to be a security issue.
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:3.5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "4A1F1157-C9DB-43EF-B215-04E7FBDD8E17"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]