CVE-2008-5822

N/A

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published1/2/2009

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

mozilla:firefoxmozilla:libxul

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-399

References

http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/mzff_libxul_ml.txt(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47758(cve@mitre.org)

http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/mzff_libxul_ml.txt(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47758(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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