CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5822
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-01-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• mozilla libxul
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html jbrownsec.blogspot.com
- http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/mzff_libxul_ml.txt Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47758 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html jbrownsec.blogspot.com
- http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/mzff_libxul_ml.txt Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47758 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com