CVE-2008-5822
Published Jan 2, 2009
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Memory leak in Libxul, as used in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and browser hang) via a long CLASS attribute in an HR element in an HTML document.
- 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-399
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Vendor comments
- Red HatRed Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Firefox to be a security issue.
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