CVE-2008-5822

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.

CVSS v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM

5.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html
http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/mzff_libxul_ml.txt	Exploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47758

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

AND

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:libxul:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2009-01-02 19:30

Updated : 2017-08-08 01:33

NVD link : CVE-2008-5822

Mitre link : CVE-2008-5822

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2008-5822

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Products Affected

mozilla

libxul
firefox

CWE

CWE-399

Resource Management Errors

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