Name: CVE-2008-5822: Undefined Security Weakness
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2009-01-02T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2008-5822, CWE-399, CVSS 5.3, EPSS 0.02068

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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.3

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade www-client/firefox-bin.Upgrade net-libs/xulrunner-bin.Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird.Upgrade www-client/seamonkey.Upgrade www-client/seamonkey-bin.Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird-bin.Upgrade mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird.Upgrade www-client/firefox.Upgrade www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin.Upgrade mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin.Upgrade dev-libs/nss.Upgrade www-client/mozilla-firefox.Upgrade www-client/icecat.Upgrade net-libs/xulrunner.	Oct 30, 2017	Jan 2, 2009

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CVSS Details

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